Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Of course both companies use their platform to increase user lock-in which indirectly helps their core revenue streams of advertising (in Facebook’s case) and hardware sales (for Apple). But we arguably have never seen a true software platform which drives a core advertising business, in the way Facebook does. Read More ».

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

And then what you mentioned is that Google's more of an advertising business than they are a search business. But they don't want to change if they don't have to because it could end up affecting their advertising revenue. So they're not going to change anything if they can't figure out how to put ads on it full stop.

SEO 70

SEO Search Generative AI Engineer 70

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

Turns out commerce and advertising are kinda different businesses actually. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Silly stuff like this. Read More ».

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising. And Twitter CRO Adam Bain is focused primarily on growing this advertising base. Twitter’s data is valuable primarily for advertising. The most valuable users for advertisers are the people that use the service the most as a utility.

Media 113

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Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of. We’ve been looking at advertising related investments since the inception of the firm.

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