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August 14, 2006
Mangrove's Tluszcz On Opps In Eastern Europe And Mobile Services
Mangrove, the young venture capital fund that is best known for being a Skype early backer is quite secretive about its activities, but one of its partners, Mark Tluszcz, has started to write occasionally on the corporate blog of its portfolio firm AllPeers (software company developing a Firefox plug-in for better media filesharing).
The blog, aptly named Peer Pressure, also has a New Business Models category that we like to read.
So far, Tluszcz has posted short items about investment opportunities in Eastern Europe, mentioning portfolio firm, AllPeers, which is based in Prague (with a North American and a French founder), but also stating that his firm is "about to invest" in Quintura, a search startup that has R&D in Russia.
That is him in this short video from vpod.tv founder Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz, which we were allowed to publish here earlier this year.
Another area he's interested in is businesses that want to take a chunk off the cost of mobile communications, particularly in the areas of roaming, messaging, and video file transfers.
We agree with him on the latter point. There's a host of companies zooming in on this opportunity, some that we've already mentioned here, and more that we have not been able to get around to profiling yet.
Read - Mobile Communications Expensive (peer pressure blog)
Read - Look East and You Could Find…. (peer pressure blog)
Find New Business Model Posts on Peer Pressure (peer pressure blog)
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Posted on August 14, 2006 06:32 AM | Posted to Venture Capital | Permalink
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