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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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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. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. I’m pleased to now turn to Kayak’s S-1 filing. Founding Date: 2004. Read More ».

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

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6) Per Market Analysis: We unfortunately only have data on four of the hundreds of different cities in which Groupon operates… two US (Chicago, Boston) and two international (Berlin, London). The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there. Read More ».

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

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And even if your startup is unlikely to IPO someday, an aggregate increase in the number of public tech companies (coupled with large cash piles for big established ones) should make the M&A climate more favorable in coming years. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.

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Is ?Data? a Business Model? ? AGILEVC

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Lots of people more forward-thinking than me have rightly said that data is a powerful asset and aggregating, mining, and making it useful will be a core element of many businesses currently being built. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

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Right now, the only company who’s really innovating is Dwolla, which is starting from the payment layer by aggregating funding sources and will eventually try to position itself as a platform (starting by offering real time cash transfers for free to banks). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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