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

View from Seed

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable. The “Internet of Things”.

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Startup opportunities in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

In a nutshell, we see it a new Internet being built, with the consumer at its centre. On the crypto-side we also see gaming leading the way with play-to-earn games such as our portfolio company Rebelbots , platforms like Manticore Games or Sandbox. We therefore believe that education in the west is very fragile. That’s insane.

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Turn Your Web Design Talent Into Freelance Success

YoungUpstarts

It’s 2016, and just about everyone either does business online or uses the internet as a tool to discover, rate and engage with businesses they rely upon. Have a portfolio. Rule number one is pretty simple — build up your portfolio. Your online portfolio should serve as a gallery full of your prior work.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. Year of Social Utilities. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). social media. In 2021, optimism on investing in social media has returned. credit App Annie. Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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Our areas of interest in healthcare

Version One Ventures

Boris wrote about the latest opportunities in enterprise SaaS , while Max outlined some of his current investment themes , from the Open Internet to climate change. Interest 1: The next generation of patient social networks. Today’s online communities for those with chronic illnesses are quite outdated.

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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. Dropbox (cloud storage). Netflix (video streaming).

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