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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

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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. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

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

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March 13, 2012. The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo! Leader on Mar 5 2012. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

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The $100M+ Club: A New Universe of Buyers ? AGILEVC

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May 21, 2012. For the last 5-7 years the universe of potential acquirers web-based businesses has been fairly concentrated. were fairly active a few years ago though neither is as active today and big media conglomerates like Disney are fairly sporadic as they embrace web-based media. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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

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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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Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent? ? AGILEVC

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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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? What’s Your Favorite Future?

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The Hulu Auction ? Content Is Still King ? AGILEVC

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Hollywood writers and producers were jumping ship to create their own indie web series. 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.