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Q4 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

Pienza , a Seattle based B2B startup studio led by Bizible founder Aaron Bird, raised $5.1M. . For instance, their latest is a magic wand which lets you change web copy without asking a developer. . Stay on top of the latest news from our portfolio in 2021 by following us on Twitter! Jam raised a $3.5M

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. There doesn’t exist a web search API that has access to page content, parsed outlinks from the page, or even edit history. Autonomous Logistics – Global autonomous delivery revenue could reach $900bn by 2030.

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

View from Seed

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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5 Tips To Build A First Website That Will Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Now is the time to get your web site up. Here are five tips to help build a first web site that will help your business grow. Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Request references and links to web content they’ve written before. Ask around. Plan to iterate.

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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example.

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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. This usually takes a lot of time, money, and energy.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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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