Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Here’s my experience, my “ah ha&# moment and why I think, although still nascent, it’s one of the most powerful websites on the web right now. What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). really understand it.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Much like networking online today, it’s important to test different techniques to see what works best for you and what resonates well with others. Facilitate networking opportunities. Starting a networking event online or offline about your area of expertise can help better associate your personal brand with your niche.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Entrepreneurs can find people with whom they want to collaborate through networking possibilities. Today she is the ex-host of one of the most successful syndicated television shows in history (The Oprah Winfrey Show), a producer and actress in her own television specials, a philanthropist, and an author. They may also communicate.

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blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

HBR Blog Network. Never Say No to Networking. When new entrepreneurs ask me for advice, I sometimes tell them to NYFO — Network Your Face Off. million users in less than a year, can be directly traced back to connections Ive made and help Ive received from a network that is vast, diverse, and active. The Magazine.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

If you always wanted to create your own live web-based radio show but have no idea how to do it, here’s a simple and elegant solution for you – Spreaker ( www.spreaker.com ) is an audio platform that allows anyone to create, broadcast and share audio across the Internet easily. Are you an aspiring DJ?

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Regarding social networking, Yahoo!

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far. When you first visit Leap.it Perspectives.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Establishing a presence on the web was probably one of the first things you set up, after your logo and branding strategy. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. It’s a given by this point that your business should have a website.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. 1/ Bottoms-Up Competition – Seed funds are getting scooped by the well-heeled alumni of today’s web scale companies. You lose way more than you win.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I recently started using BufferApp both on my phone and my browser to syndicate content to my other networks. Buffer is a web service that takes content from you or others, and syndicates it via a shortened URL across multiple services. I feel I can spend time there for a future time when its had time to grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo! And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Fortune Brainstorm.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene. Like with most VCs, our inbound leads come from our network. Today, the boom of information (i.e. We’re now able to generate more outbound leads.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far. When you first visit Leap.it Perspectives.

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Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

Back in those Web 1.0 In the intervening years while I pursued a career investing in startups rather than creating them, Josh continued as an entrepreneur starting a handful of companies including early social networking site Sconex, successfully sold to Alloy Media.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Further down the scale are the regional events that the organizations put on, which usually combine regional investment syndication with classes and tutorials. The group’s respective web sites list these events. There are break out seminars on educational topics, and lots of networking. Venture Capitalists.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2020

by running on an individual PC, across a network, over an “on premises” web server, or on a remote platform like Microsoft Azure or AWS. That way, an index can hold ordinary documents, email files and web-based data enabling integrated search. The same concept also works for your own data. Cross That Off The List Right Now!

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Technologies for CEM run a diverse spectrum of capabilities, from surveys to web content instrumentation to focus groups and secret shopper feedback boxes. The big shift in web content is how user generated content is being captured and re-used. CXM IS WHAT CHANGED, NOT GET SATISFACTION.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. The third wave of podcasting. itunes.apple.com. Masters of Scale?—?

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

This month, as always, I will also share the tips we’ve been sharing all month long across the world wide web and the insights we’ve learned. i) Get out and network with REAL people. This post seemed to be hitting the pain points well, and was syndicated by the folks at Business2Community as well.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Not every social network is a Facebook or Instagram. Retail or end user web sites do not even receive limited notice without being discovered through a real marketing program, aimed at finding the flywheel effect (the moment. Dave’s syndicated cable show: The Berkus Report. It doesn’t happen by accident.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Hollywood writers and producers were jumping ship to create their own indie web series. Providence Equity invested $100M at a $1B valuation not because of their technology or product, but because the network owners contributed a lot of valuable content… or at least access to it for 2years. Content was no longer king.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Opportunistic VC investors focus less on developing very specific theses and more on cultivating a deep, rich network around the entire firm. Also really great opportunistic VCs are highly intentional about how they build their sourcing network and brand. Two firms I respect in this regard are Greylock and Andreesen Horowitz.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. How many angel groups are there?

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Twitter isn’t really a social network. But Twitter isn’t really a social network. Dick Costolo rightly boasts that Twitter is one of the largest referrers of traffic on the web. In the private markets Twitter commands a higher revenue multiple all the other high profile Web 2.0 Hootsuite, CoTweet, etc).

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Consumers who shop on an iPad, iPhone orAndroid-based phone or tablet will be able to view Invodo video on retail sites in their device’s native Web browser. The player seamlessly integrates with all the elements of Invodo’s full-service eCommerce video solution, including the platform and video syndication network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I also have to include this caveat: we werent purely a software company - we built telecom network devices, hw and sw. In indubitably, the project will be saddled with a set of business analysts whose richest experience with an advanced system has been to browse some web pages or order something online. Software Eng. Expo SF (May.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. The third wave of podcasting. itunes.apple.com.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Several years ago, writer Chris Anderson coined the phrase “the long tail&# during the growth of the new era of collaborative applications, popularly called web 2.0. Even on PCs, social sites …shatter the unity of the Web with content behind a password, invisible to search engines.&#. Protecting the Splinternet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

Back then, podcasting was new, iTunes had just burst onto the scene and an army of podcasters embraced this new RSS driven way to syndicate content. I pay about $10 a month for this and it keeps my podcast separate from my web hosting. I pay about $10 a month for this and it keeps my podcast separate from my web hosting.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

I’m sure at some point, the best of these deals will be syndicated to Homerun , Groupon, Buywithme, etc., These plays still have the “last mile” problem of getting new venues onto the platform when the average retailer barely knows how to use the web and generally sucks at online marketing. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of. We don’t do chip-in investments – each investment is a full-allocation of partner time.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. who derive a meaningful chunk of their revenue from operating ad networks. Facebook, Inc.

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