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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell.

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Analytics On The Bleeding Edge: Transforming Data's Influence

Occam's Razor

Product/regions/channels. From 2006: Is Real-Time Analytics Really Relevant? ). sales) impact of my brand marketing? – work together, and how do the channels complement each other? We have the ability to model scenarios, budgets, channel allocations to maximize effectiveness and efficiency for our future campaigns.

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Paul Graham 2006: Advice to entrepreneurs – Don’t get your hopes up

The Equity Kicker

Someone just linked me to a Paul Graham essay from 2006 titled The hardest lessons for startups to learn. I love the analogy with nuclear reactors because it makes it clear that optimism is a something to be loved and cherished, but that at the same time it needs to be contained and channeled to avoid danger.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut.

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Channel partners can be golden for growth

Berkonomics

In 2006, I gave a keynote speech at the Newspaper Association of America’s national conference in Chicago. I gave them a speed lesson on how the newspaper business can build a new river of cash through channel partnerships. Good Channel partners are hunters with a “protein–rich” diet of connections. By Kim Shepherd.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. Marketing: Which channels are they active on? They show original sales intelligence data and they post relatable memes. Since its 2006 foundation, YETI has built over 90K LinkedIn followers and 125.7K YETI tells a consistent story across all channels.

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The Rise of AI in Advertising

Duct Tape Marketing

With over two decades in the digital marketing industry, he established his award-winning Melbourne-based digital agency WebSavvy back in 2006, to help small businesses grow. Seven different channels and Facebook have since come out with their sort of version of this and marketers are a little bit upset. We don't really miss control.