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

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Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. 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. Recent Investment Themes.

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

Agile VC

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. Chris Chaten. Any thoughts on Isis?

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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And because of this, the demand for Silicon Valley caliber talent is growing exponentially. But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. A shortage of engineers is the biggest challenge facing Silicon Valley startups today.