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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

March 13, 2012. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. only notified them of potential IP infringement two weeks ago on February 27, 2012 (as described in the lawsuit) and Facebook heard about it through the media rather than in private. Leader on Mar 5 2012. Yesterday Yahoo!

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

I feel more comfortable in my skin and accept that I can’t return every email, I can’t take every startup pitch, I can’t attend ANY demo days ( did I mention I don’t like demo days ?), I can’t be at every great out-of-town meetup and I certainly can’t “ chuck in money to every party round.”

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Also the proportion of email subscribers who’ve bought a Groupon has held up reasonably well. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

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How Mobile Payment Will Impact The Growth Of Mobile Commerce This Holiday Season

YoungUpstarts

in March 2014 , more than double the percentage in March 2012. Scott pioneered many of the most utilized concepts in online media including opt-in data collection, email to postal data appending, affiliate marketing, web syndication, internet reality shows and internet pay per view. Mobile site traffic reached 38.2%

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Smoke vs Fire: Handling ?Preemptive? Interest From VCs ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

February 28, 2012. There’s unfortunately no easy way to determine whether a lobbed in call or email represents smoke or fire. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Netflix / Qwikster Split Was Brilliant (and Necessary)? 2 Long Term.

Agile VC

Lots of us woke up this morning to an email from Reed Hastings about Netflix splitting it’s streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses into two separate operations (each w/ it’s own brand). 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? 9 July 2012, 1:10 pm Directr – Tell Your Story 30 June 2012, 1:55 am.

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2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups

Gust

This trend is particularly applicable to angel groups who syndicate seed/startup stage deals with a large number of angel groups and seed VCs in their region. Syndication among angel groups is a real advantage when larger round size is required (at any stage) but can increase the valuation in early rounds.