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How to Value a Revolution

October 3rd, 2013|Categories: WRITING|Tags: |

Ravi Viswanathan (ENG’90; WG’98) and Daniel Axelsen (W’10) It’s an exciting time to be a venture capitalist. As an investor at NEA in Silicon Valley, I’m seeing some of today’s greatest technology and business revolutions up close: Software-as-a-Service: the new model for business applications Cloud computing: enabling unprecedented infrastructure performance and flexibility Payments: now being integrating into mobile devices and apps Education: democratized and globalized for the first time ever But these revolutions also present [...]

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$800M Gorilla: eBay To Acquire Mobile Payments Disruptor Braintree

September 26th, 2013|Categories: WRITING|Tags: , |

Today we are excited to report that eBay has agreed to acquire Braintree, a payments company that processes more than $12 billion in transactions a year, for $800 million. It’s one of the year’s larger M&A transactions so far, also notable as an early exit in a sector where investors have placed some big bets—more than $800 million over the last year alone in mobile payments. NEA made one of those bets on Braintree because we [...]

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Mexico

September 9th, 2013|Categories: TRAVEL|Tags: |

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Recent Lessons for a VC

November 5th, 2012|Categories: WRITING|Tags: |

At my firm, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), we think a lot about the ingredients to creating huge companies – disruption, great entrepreneurs, big markets.  The disruption aspect is interesting as this has evolved over the years – in the 80’s and 90’s, much of the disruption was really technology based (a new molecule, a new piece of code, a new piece of hardware).  Now, disruption comes in a lot of ways – business models, go-to-market, value chain, [...]

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