View from Seed

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The best kind of traffic to a web based business is organic traffic. On the more organic side is when the founder and investor have a pre-existing relationship. On the more organic side is when the founder and investor have a pre-existing relationship. Similarly, the best kind of deal flow for a VC is organic deal flow.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 4, 2013

The web has become increasingly visual. Of course the same broadband penetration trends which catapulted the rise of online video over the previous decade also empowered delivery of image-heavy web pages. We at NextView Ventures are happy to join co-investors True Ventures, iNovia, and the rest of the syndicate.

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Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

Just about fifteen years ago, Josh Schanker and I, along with our co-founders Elliot Shmukler and Tammy O’Neil Bolduc started Sombasa Media together. Back in those Web 1.0 days, we quickly learned the power of email in driving real consumer engagement and purchasing events.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But it occurred to me we haven’t talked publicly a great deal about our view of hardware businesses.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But it occurred to me we haven’t talked publicly a great deal about our view of hardware businesses.

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

For the last 5-7 years the universe of potential acquirers web-based businesses has been fairly concentrated. were fairly active a few years ago though neither is as active today and big media conglomerates like Disney are fairly sporadic as they embrace web-based media. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. May 21, 2012.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Editors Note: This is syndicated guest post by Walter Chen , co-founder of iDoneThis, an easy way for your team to sync up on its daily progress. It’s counterintuitive, but Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos takes a totally different approach to hiring: he gives prospects a hiring anti-pitch.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. The third wave of podcasting.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

With the wave of innovation in the consumer web/internet world, we are seeing an increased interest among students in pursuing an entrepreneurial career path. Below is an interview I did with one such entrepreneur (thanks for our friends and OpenView for helping with the filming and syndication). September is here!

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. The third wave of podcasting.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Excepting for cosmically co-incidental success stories, the fuzzy requirement stuff never congeals as a holistic engineering exercise. In indubitably, the project will be saddled with a set of business analysts whose richest experience with an advanced system has been to browse some web pages or order something online. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

2) Vast Human Capital Outside Our Walls - Rob, David, and I all try to draw on our experience as founders, operators, and investors in software & internet companies both in looking at new startups and forming investment themes. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: [link].

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. instead of having to travel home. .&# instead of having to travel home.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

They also did a lot of self-directed research checking all sorts of sources, from social media to syndicated content to category- or industry-specific resources.” – Beth Caplow, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester [via Forrester ]. For example, Optimizely is a hero to web developers that want to improve their conversion rates.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 14 million unique monthly visitors, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. I first met co-founder/CEO Dan Foody a little over six months ago. link] leehower.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The angel investor groups such as the Central Texas Angel Network and Houston Angel Network syndicate deals with each other but it’s still the exception not the norm for an Austin startup to have investors from Dallas or Houston, even thought that’s where much of the wealth in Texas is. You can start by selling in the U.S.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Web Video Roundup. Programming and Web Development Lists. Web Design. Trending Stories.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We’re increasingly comfortable overlapping our online and real lives, and web services that figure out how to make our real lives easier will do well. Meanwhile, some of the web’s best-known companies increased their presence in New York City — likely bringing investor money and capable engineers with them.

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. I first met Matija Kopic, Farmeron’s co-founder & CEO, a few months ago. When you think of web-enabled startups, farms don’t instantly spring to mind.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. If you are a totally new site with zero web presence what can you do to even get people there?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 4, 2015

The failed pitches to investors, the difficult conversations with loved ones, and even the negotiations among cofounders are all recorded here as they happened, giving a unique look at one man’s entire experience from concept to company. TWIST, an acronym for “This Week In STartups,” is all about the world of web companies.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Marketing firm Performics reported that 49% of “heavy mobile web users&# have made a purchase using a mobile device. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

That sounds like a lot of responsibility for someone fresh out of undergrad as I was then, but in reality both of these were peripheral elements of PayPal’s core web-based payment product which was still heavily concentrated on eBay auctions at the time. I’d be happy to co-author with you. Any thoughts? link] leehower.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Google bought web 2.0 Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

As a Content Marketer, your content piece can be syndicated across all these top publisher sites, for a very nominal Cost-per-Click thereby increasing the reach of your post. distributes sponsored content across the web, on top publisher sites the platform has partnered with. Content.ad.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. million followers).

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. Consider the case of the last company I co-founded, SiteAdvisor. graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Naming on the web is difficult because it’s a multiple-step process that’s a mix of art, science and pure perseverance. For my Adult web store I used my dogs name + Pleasure box and I came up with corbinspleasurebox.org.

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