View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

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.

Seed Stage 272

Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

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). . It can help develop applications for the startup’s technology in its early days.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

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. Franchising is a great “old school” way of accomplishing this and Uber the ultimate 21st century technological way to do so. What about You? If so, great! read more.

Disintermediation 59

Disintermediation Business Model B2B Revenue 59

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. Most of our AdTech investments would be labeled “glue&# (they were all connecting or intermediary technologies – just applied to online advertising). Technology Innovation. And for a while that worked pretty well.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 25, 2011

The last 2 years have been banner years for social CRM technology where the term itself went from being derided as being made up by vendors and analysts rather than defining an actual technology segment, to one of enthusiasm and excitement for how social technologies are changing the way companies engage their customers.

Disintermediation 50

Disintermediation Architecture Analytics Social Media 50

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. Most of our AdTech investments would be labeled “glue” (they were all connecting or intermediary technologies – just applied to online advertising). Technology Innovation. Margin Dynamics.

Disintermediation 48

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 48

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. I’ve been an interested observer of electronic payments for 12+ years.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250