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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. Network Effect B2B.

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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). . At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising.

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

Agile VC

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. And at the end of the day it appears Isis will just be working with the existing credit card networks Visa, MC, Amex, & Discover. . Good luck to Ben.

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Terence Kawaja Presents “Clash of the Titans” in Social Media

VC Cafe

He is also the founder of LUMA Partners, a successful investment bank focused on digital media. The incumbents are the “gatekeepers,” either partners or enemies. There is disintermediation going on. His opinion in social media makes waves across the investment world, influencing heavily where money will flow.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Webinar Description: Entrepreneurial and Investment Opportunities in Fintech You’re invited to listen to a webinar, hosted by Growthink co-Founder and Managing Partner Jay Turo, where a select group of Fintech entrepreneurs and investors will share how they and their companies are winning in this incredibly dynamic space.

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The Great Fragmentation

aweissman.com

A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation?

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Transcript of What Local Businesses Need to Know About the State of Local SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. The disintermediation potential there in what’s happening today in certain verticals is absolutely a byproduct. John Jantsch: It’s networking, it is all it is, right? Back to Podcast. Transcript. Absolutely.

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