Forerunner Ventures
Consumers are more rapidly dictating change through their preferences and behaviors. Successful business leaders are responding with innovation. This environment rewards investors with vision.
Forerunner Ventures is an investment firm dedicated to partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on an evolving, dynamic marketplace.
In 2009, 154 million people in the U.S. bought something online, or 67% of the online population.
While $155 billion worth of consumer goods were bought online last year, $917 billion worth of retail sales last year were "Web-influenced."
Online and Web-influenced offline sales combined accounted for 42% of total retail sales; that percentage will grow to 53% by 2014, when the Web will be influencing $1.4 trillion worth of in-store sales.
