Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Salesforce is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force.com and acquisitions (e.g. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Microsoft has two massive platforms in Windows and Xbox, and has been thrashing about for a decade trying to build one in mobile. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup 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. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

In the fall of 2010 I laid out reasons why all the tech “bubble” chatter was really more the hallmark of a reasonably sustained boom , and then revisited the topic almost one year ago to the day. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Read More ».

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. In fact Facebook’s ad revenue dropped in absolute terms slightly (about -3%) from Q4 2010 to Q1 2011.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The first of these to exit was recently announced, with Groupon’s acquisition of Hyperpublic , though most of the portfolio will continue to build for a long time. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

I first met Wiley Cerilli on April 23, 2010. When I asked him to come share his sales and company culture expertise at GA, he was on it--right in the middle of acquisition negotiations. When we first syndicated the seed round with other investors, some people didn't get it. Wiley was soft spoken and extremely professional.

Syndicate 131

Syndicate Syndication Viral B2B 131

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

See the March 2010 edition after the jump. Israel’s ranking in the’s Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 increased to 24th place from 27th the year before. Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. in August 2010.

United Kingdom 96

United Kingdom Austria Global 96

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. A talent acquisition or bootstrapping are still options, but need to include buy-in from the investors.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

3) Repeatable, cost effective customer acquisition – Nothing whets a Series A investor’s appetite like a startup that’s shown $1 of incremental marketing spend will yield $2-3 of gross margin. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

His co-founder/CMO Alex Cote has run customer acquisition programs that have attracted millions of users via a range of channels. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston both Microsoft and Google have made significant expansions in recent years in Cambridge, and PayPal/eBay is poised to do the same in downtown Boston through acquisition and organic growth. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

of GDP in 2010 from 5.2% Israeli cows in 2010 produced a total of 1,304 million liters of milk, slightly higher than the previous year. Following the acquisition, Trifon will become DG’s chief digital officer. With the acquisition, Amdocs plans to expand its Customer Experience Systems (CES) portfolio. of GDP from 79.3%

Balance Sheet 90

Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104