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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). . I recently had a chance to interview Mari Joller , an expert on corporate innovation, on this topic.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

And in so doing they created a powerful recurring revenue business model based as much on their organizational design as on their marketing and technology prowess. taking products and/or services made by someone else and then inventorying, marketing and selling them. Again and again and again. Warby Parker, Uber, Grainger, McDonald's.

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Don’t call it AdTech. It’s “Adhesive”

VC Adventure

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. Many of the companies in which we’ve invested were pioneering new technologies into this market and as a result became market leaders in their segments. And for a while that worked pretty well. Margin Dynamics.

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

MarketingMarketing Automation, Revenue Performance Management, Social Marketing, Email Marketing, Enterprise Marketing Management, Database Marketing. Partner Relationship Management. Traditional CRM Suites. Social CRM. Sales – Sales Force Automation, Sales Optimization, Sales Effectiveness.

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Don’t call it AdTech. It’s “Adhesive”

VC Adventure

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. Many of the companies in which we’ve invested were pioneering new technologies into this market and as a result became market leaders in their segments. ” And for a while that worked pretty well. Margin Dynamics.

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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

Here’s why: Market Efficiency. 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. With now over one thousand active U.S.