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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. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable.

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Why I love the Care Space

A Crowded Space

It’s incredibly hard and time-consuming for a customer to go through all these options and find a qualified provider. . Unsatisfied customers. I don’t have any hard data on customer satisfaction in the industry, but I’d be willing to bet that the NPS scores are terrible. . 1) Value-add from the mobile app.

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Mari Holds a B.A.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

rather than guessing how much credit to give each marketing strategy from hundreds of thousands of customer touch points, ML powered attribution can magically analyze every individual’s journey and automatically recommend shifts to your media budget! AND (are you sitting down?) This is not some future fantasy. Another example from last year.

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

Agile VC

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

The last 2 years have been banner years for social CRM technology where the term itself went from being derided as being made up by vendors and analysts rather than defining an actual technology segment, to one of enthusiasm and excitement for how social technologies are changing the way companies engage their customers. Mobile CRM.