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

View from Seed

While all three of our most recent investments built on this foundational idea still remain stealthy, everyone utilizes connected technology to uniquely deliver a service or bundled product. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Network Effect B2B. Empowering Content Creators. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

The solution has to balance four variables: Revenue for publishers that sell ad space; Targeting capability for ad networks; Return on ad spend for ad buyers; Privacy for users who see ads. an ad for a product you left in your cart on another site). But without third-party cookies, what’s a display network to do? Image source ).

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Innovative Product Design #3 – [link]. The 4G forgery – T-Mobile does not have a 4G network – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company – [link].

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Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?

Version One Ventures

We love their network effects and continue to invest in them. With that said, here are some opportunities we see for the next generation of large, venture-scale marketplace businesses: Product marketplaces. Here’s a question that we have been getting a lot lately: Do you still invest in marketplaces? . The answer is YES!

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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. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles.

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A Critical, but Ignored Metric for Marketplaces

A Crowded Space

They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. They won’t open your emails, they won’t participate in your community forums, they won’t give you product feedback, and they won’t be telling all their friends about the platform.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

Primarily because we got our first real everyday access to products and services that used some form of AI to delight us. Most Deep Learning methods involve artificial neural networks, modeling how our bran works. No more theory, we felt it! I’m going to take a very long walk with you today. Deep Learning is a specific ML technique.