article thumbnail

GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. All of us at NextView are psyched to support the company into it’s next phases of growth along with the rest of the investor syndicate.

Community 100
article thumbnail

Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Windows Mobile has been a disappointment to date but Azure (an outgrowth of the.NET framework) is growing as a force on the cloud/server side. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. FWIW, how do Apple and Facebook stack up in historical context of other widespread software platforms?

Java 170
article thumbnail

Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

article thumbnail

Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

IPO 100
article thumbnail

The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Software 100
article thumbnail

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

Agile VC

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 ».