Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

But that data is valuable mainly as a way to better target existing forms of advertising (display and search) or to enable advertisers to increase exposure or better target Twitter’s new types of ad units like sponsored tweets and trends. Dick Costolo rightly boasts that Twitter is one of the largest referrers of traffic on the web.

Media 113

Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Hollywood writers and producers were jumping ship to create their own indie web series. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. A lot of people talked about the rise of UGC and how it might displace a large amount of professionally produced video content (TV shows and movies). Content was no longer king.

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

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. ==. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 4 days ago Search. Facebook, Inc. Previous Entries.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. The consumer web landscape has changed meaningfully since I wrote that in 2006. We’re witnessing a new wave in “big data” that extends far beyond just the consumer web.

Business Model 113

Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

CRM) but it’s rarely easy to browse or search all of this contact information from a single interface. And in it’s raw format, just searching for a contact may not provide much value. Also the fact that it “is designed from the get go around mobile usage in addition to the desktop web” is a huge advantage.

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

When you think of web-enabled startups, farms don’t instantly spring to mind. Trained as a computer scientist and coming from a family whose background is in large-scale corporate farming, Matija saw a clear opportunity to solve many of these data challenges with easy to use web-based software. feedstocks). Previous Entries.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate 223

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

That sounds like a lot of responsibility for someone fresh out of undergrad as I was then, but in reality both of these were peripheral elements of PayPal’s core web-based payment product which was still heavily concentrated on eBay auctions at the time. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250