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

View from Seed

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Empowering Content Creators.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. I don’t think we are.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

Warby manages this killer combination of moderate prices and solid margins through supply chain efficiencies on the back end and on the front end picture perfect web branding and “white glove” customer service. Very impressively, for a mid-priced player in the eyeglasses space, Warby’s gross margins are estimated at a healthy 60%+.

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Marketing – Marketing Automation, Revenue Performance Management, Social Marketing, Email Marketing, Enterprise Marketing Management, Database Marketing. Customer Experience Management. Enterprise Feedback Management. Innovation Management. Vendor Relationship Management. Partner Relationship Management.

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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

The result has been a “regression to the mean” - with alpha performance by fund managers being driven as much by randomness and luck (as it has been with public market mutual funds for decades) as by coherent design. With now over one thousand active U.S. This all costs money. So what to do?

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[Review] To Sell Is Human

YoungUpstarts

The first section reveals that the sales profession hasn’t vanished into thin air despite the “disintermediating” propensities of the Internet. Rebirth of a Salesman. On the contrary, the American economy has far more salespeople than factory workers, and the gap is growing each year. ” Serve.

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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 ).