Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Watch enough soccer on Telemundo or Univision and you’ll occasionally hear the commentators shout it at the top of their lungs, or just search on YouTube and you’ll get some examples. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 4 days ago Search.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Even Amazon isn’t a platform… yes they have AWS but it accounts for <3% of their revenue and isn’t terribly profitable given the capex & opex currently going into growing it. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Not Groupon. Not Dropbox. Read More ». Previous Entries.

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston the same dynamic as Silicon Valley has been afoot… at least in the software/internet sphere, the majority of startups have migrated from the suburban loop of Rt 128 back into the urban core of Boston & Cambridge. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Revenue ramp of Groupon and Zynga –> Kleiner famously said Zynga was the fastest growing company they’d ever invested in , no mean feat for the original backers of Google, Amazon, Netscape, etc, and Groupon might be the fastest ever startup to reach $1B in revenue. Read More ». Previous Entries.

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Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

The simple answer is “be able to convince a partnership of smart investors that your startup has a good probability of being a $100M+ revenue company within 5ish years.” Whether it’s customers, revenue, user acquisition, investors are more likely to be convinced when your startup has a good near past (last 3-4mo) trajectory.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

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Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

E-commerce accounts for the vast majority of LL Bean’s revenue today ( it crossed 50% in 2010 though was as low as 15% in 2000 ), but because LL Bean is over a hundred years old and started as catalog & physical store retailer we typically don’t refer to it as an internet company. Read More ». Previous Entries.

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Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

For SaaS or other recurring revenue businesses these figures might be on a bookings basis rather than GAAP revenue, but conceptually they’re similar. Bill Gurley’s post last year does a great job analyzing why some businesses are valued at 10x+ revenue and most aren’t. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue.

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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels. Stage 2: Angel Round While writing the prototype, the group has been traversing theirnetwork of friends in search of angel investors. In the Bay Area its the Bandof Angels.

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