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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable. The “Internet of Things”.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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Why Your Next Startup Should Be In Insurance

YoungUpstarts

Another great example of innovation comes courtesy of Metromile, a startup right out of Silicon Valley that’s changing the way auto insurance is provided. and counsels clients primarily in the advertising and digital media, Internet, software and technology and insurance industries. She’s based in L.A.,

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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.

Steve Blank

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. The google adsense search button gives a feel for the direction of relevant advertising.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

The future of the Internet is video. Ben & Lisa have always held enormous talents and I look forward to working with them as they help grow the company, increase & improve production quality, build out vertical networks, form partnerships with major brand advertisers and develop new sources to monetize both on and off YouTube.

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Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

What Hasn’t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Facebook makes it official — an external advertising network is coming soon | Gigaom – [link].

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. link] leehower.