Agile VC
OCTOBER 27, 2011
The Consumerization of Business Software. 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. People have been selling software over the web for awhile and indirect selling via screensharing and webinar, etc isn’t new.
Agile VC
OCTOBER 3, 2016
” In my first post earlier this summer, I highlighted the fact that we’re still a ways off from truly autonomous vehicles, despite many decades of technological advances to assist drivers. Tesla has already released updates to its Auto-Pilot software to further refine situations like this. .
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Agile VC
MAY 13, 2013
If you think back to the monster consumer software and internet companies that’ve been built in the last 2-3 decades, it’s actually far more likely they were fast and/or particularly innovative followers rather than first movers.
Agile VC
JUNE 30, 2016
In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers. All of the following systems involve software / hardware to inform drivers or physically take action on a car’s throttle, brake, or steering systems. Anti-lock brakes –> again debuting on Chrysler Imperials in 1971.
Agile VC
OCTOBER 11, 2016
The transportation market is among the largest spheres of commerce in the world, and network connected software and hardware will transform this industry in the coming decade and beyond.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
More recently acquiring Quattro Wireless created the iAds mobile ad network and Siri was of course a technology acquired from SRI. Less auspiciously Apple bought a Swedish mapping technology company (C3) to form the basis of Apple Maps. If you add up all the content, software, and services (e.g.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
While it’s certainly possible for a startup to build new products to serve adjacent markets and it’s easier to expand internet & software businesses globally today than a decade ago, neither are easy to do in the first 0-5 years of a startup’s life.
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