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See what Mark Vadon, Executive Chairman of Blue Nile and Sector Advisor for Maveron, has to say about the mindset of today’s consumer. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player1").style.display = ""; var s1 = new SWFObject("http://www.maveron.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf","player1","480","380","7"); s1.addParam("wmode","transparent"); [ READ MORE ]
By Jason Stoffer I graduated from Wharton in 2005, and rather than joining my fellow graduates flocking to Wall Street, McKinsey and Google, I joined Career Education Corporation (Nasdaq: CECO). This little known company delivered operating results most VCs would salivate over. CECO’s Online Education division, which offered online post-secondary degrees, scaled from startup [ READ MORE ]
Help, it’s the first hint of a sniffle and you’re convinced you’re coming down with swine flu! You could wait in line for hours for an H1N1 vaccine (only to be told they’re out), or you could instead rush to the store to and buy a few cartons of delicious GoodBelly, the best-selling fruit drink [ READ MORE ]
Auctionpay [http://www.auctionpay.com] was acquired by Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) [www.globalpayments.com], one of the world’s largest electronic payment processing services, on September 28th. The all-cash acquisition generated a positive return for Maveron and the company’s founders. Maveron was thrilled to announce this well-deserved exit, and we look forward to seeing Auctionpay continue to grow its [ READ MORE ]
Kids love to surf the Web – but parents don’t love all the questionable content, videos, and images they can find there. What if you could turn your kids lose on a computer that only allowed them browse content on over 1 million “kid-friendly” websites, games, and YouTube videos pre-approved by a team of hundreds [ READ MORE ]
By Christopher Michel, Maveron Sector Advisor This morning, I noted that Auren Hoffman posted a link to Mark Suster’s great blog post, “Who Should You Hire in a Start-up?” Essentially, Mark advocates for hiring people that want to “punch above their weight class.” In other words, people that are still striving to grow in their [ READ MORE ]
The entire Maveron team is excited to announce a new investment, completed September 23rd, in Altius Education (http://altiused.com/), a San Francisco company that helps non-profit universities launch for-profit online degree programs. Maveron continues to actively invest in promising, consumer-focused companies – and we chose to co-lead, with Spark Ventures, the $8 million Series A round [ READ MORE ]
By Timothy Hay, WSJ Blog Post Deal pace in the venture capital industry has cooled considerably. At the same time, demand for useful smartphone applications has heated up beyond the boiling point, as the billion-plus downloads logged by Apple Inc.’s App Store in less than a year can attest. So it was probably just a [ READ MORE ]
