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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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Sonos + Alexa Strategy

Feld Thoughts

I hope they are thinking hard about it, rather than fearing being disintermediated by Alexa. Or live music that is syndicated from a different partner. Early access to new products. I’m very invested in both Sonos and Alexa, as I’ve got them installed in multiple places. Or maybe special access to curated channels.

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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). . Corporations in turn benefit from the new technologies, products and services these startups bring to the table.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

Our challenge is to similarly “crack the code” of empowering the people connected to our business - employees, contractors, partners, even vendors and customers - to "sell for us" in a way that benefits all. taking products and/or services made by someone else and then inventorying, marketing and selling them. What about You?

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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. Everyone contributing to the chain of events that result in an ad being served is ultimately at the mercy of the effectiveness of their product. And for a while that worked pretty well. Margin Dynamics. Technology Innovation.

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Interesting as that is to observe, many questions still linger about whether this is in fact a product category or a catch-all category to describe a collection of product categories that are probably too small to exist independently and matter, or more to the point, these subcategories are deployed collectively to enable a social CRM strategy.

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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. Everyone contributing to the chain of events that result in an ad being served is ultimately at the mercy of the effectiveness of their product. ” And for a while that worked pretty well. Margin Dynamics. Technology Innovation.