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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. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. As we look to continue to build out portfolio, we encourage you to subscribe to The View From Seed to keep in touch. Recent Investment Themes.

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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

These high fees obviously eat away at returns, and more profoundly are in contrast to the “disintermediation spirit” so at the heart of modern technology investing. Now, funds do work to charge some of these costs back to their portfolio companies, but usually these offsets flow to the fund’s General and not its Limited Partners.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. They act in the interest of their portfolio companies like any investor would.

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

Version One Ventures

For example, Wish has given shoppers direct access to Chinese sellers; LetGo and OfferUp have connected local buyers and sellers with a visually appealing mobile-first experience; and our portfolio company Headout has taken the supply of offline attractions, activities and events online as well as mobile for travellers to book on-demand.

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9 Real Estate Marketing Strategies to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

If you are serious about your long-term success, then you may consider publishing a weekly or monthly newsletter with updates on current mortgage rates, changes in real estate laws, benefits of homeownership, how to develop a real estate investment portfolio, health checks on the local market, and so on.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Crowdfunder and its VC Index Fund provide the opportunity for direct online investment into single ventures, as well as diversification into a broad VC-led portfolio (Index Fund) of early-stage startups – backed by many of the world’s leading Venture Capital firms and private investors. What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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Don’t call it AdTech. It’s “Adhesive”

VC Adventure

“We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. And for a while that worked pretty well. They are: Scale. Margin Dynamics.