Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Software 100

Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). 2010 Gross Profit: $280M. Gross Profit Margins: 42% (Q1 2011), 39% (2010), 36% (2009) –> i.e. for every $1 of Groupons sold, the company currently keeps $0.42 in net revenue and passes $0.58

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We’re just a little start-up with a big, big dream…We’ve just launched [link] in December 2010. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Regarding social networking, Yahoo! Read More ».

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

Similarly Rob, David, and I try to think with a blank canvas, both in starting NextView in 2010 and on a continuous reevaluation of how we invest and how we might better help entrepreneurs build great companies. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 124

Agile VC

AUGUST 2, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 113

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Microsoft has two massive platforms in Windows and Xbox, and has been thrashing about for a decade trying to build one in mobile. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Facebook is a platform and companies like Zynga have been built upon it. Apple’s iOS is a platform. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

E-commerce accounts for the vast majority of LL Bean’s revenue today ( it crossed 50% in 2010 though was as low as 15% in 2000 ), but because LL Bean is over a hundred years old and started as catalog & physical store retailer we typically don’t refer to it as an internet company. Read More ».

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 133

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 133

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

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

Thursday, April 1, 2010. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. April 21, 2010 9:26 PM. ▼ 2010. (7). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Post a Comment.

Term Sheet 32

Term Sheet Angel Investor San Jose Venture Capital 32

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

South Korea 124

South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley 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

JANUARY 12, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Seed Stage 100

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. Read More ».

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 18, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Cofounder Silicon Valley Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

And when I say reservation price I don’t just mean valuation… I mean the broad contours of a round that you’d be willing to do which includes not just valuation but size of the raise, syndicate, etc. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Early Stage 100

Early Stage Syndicate Syndication Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Private Equity Seed Stage Syndicate 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Media 113

Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. ► 2010. (7). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. ► February. (1).

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio is home to H-E-B , our regional grocery store which is also one of the most innovative and community focused organizations in the state and mobilizes to respond to hurricanes and pandemics and to keep Texans fed. In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco. all Bay Area firms?—?

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Brightkite , the company that pioneered the place checkin, pivoted from checkins to group messaging in late 2010. Birchbox didn’t discover the subscription product model when it launched in 2010, but it did make subscription service sexy. Today in Mobile. The checkin isn’t dead — it’s changing.

New York City 83

New York City New York Startup Social Media 83

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Thursday, September 2, 2010. There are several efforts being made to make this process better and will mention a couple below: Angel Capital Association Collaboration Committee - I was a charter member of the this group and the goal is to facilitate syndication among the angel groups via education and tools such as Angelsoft.

Angel Investor 28

Angel Investor Angel Groups San Jose Venture Capital 28

semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Mobile telephony is a particularly bloody battlefield; in the most recent volley, Droid has launched an assault on the dominance of the iPhone. Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. Im on my way to spread it around already.

Semantic 40

Semantic Web Technology HTML 40

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. ► 2010. (7). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. 3 days ago.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

And Cloze’s product is designed from the get go around mobile usage in addition to the desktop web (>20% of LinkedIn traffic today is smartphones & tablets). Also the fact that it “is designed from the get go around mobile usage in addition to the desktop web” is a huge advantage. Overall, great find!

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate 223

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

May 23, 2011 by Christina Warren 20 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

Agile VC

OCTOBER 2, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Business Model 100

Business Model Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate 100