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

View from Seed

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

Our challenge is to similarly “crack the code” of empowering the people connected to our business - employees, contractors, partners, even vendors and customers - to "sell for us" in a way that benefits all. to canvas 300+ of the world’s biggest cities and thus make it so easy for Uber customers to buy transportation from the company.

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

Agile VC

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g.

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