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

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Typically, these patterns arise out of a combination of approaches by my partners and me: proactive searching for startups in specific categories, reacting to what entrepreneurs pitch, and translating valuable learning from making one investment over to making another. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. Distributed teams are more common, and companies know what to expect when managing remote offices. But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. Mari Holds a B.A.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Traditional financial products and services being fundamentally disrupted by these new digital technologies include consumer and commercial banking, fund transfers and payments, investment and wealth management, insurance, and investment banking. Mr. Matt Stewart , Senior Marketing Manager, LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE ).

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

Agile VC

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. Dwolla is also considering to take its network overseas, still riding ACH. Good luck to Ben.

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