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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

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And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. For a time that meant that other category leaders accelerated their own IPO plans… think Groupon and Zynga. Life was good.

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6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

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Facebook 2012: What the Future Holds for the Social Media Powerhouse. Brightkite , the company that pioneered the place checkin, pivoted from checkins to group messaging in late 2010. Birchbox didn’t discover the subscription product model when it launched in 2010, but it did make subscription service sexy. Joshua Ledgard.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

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When it comes to the most famous company that got away, Groupon — which was offered and turned down $6 billion in 2010, and recently fell below that market cap — Lawee refuses to speculate about whether it would have fared better inside the Googleplex.). company Slide.com in August 2010 for $182 million. On2 Technologies.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

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social media = we were an advertising or public relations firm in 2010. Latest Social Media News. Latest Media News. Social Media Lists. Social Media. Social Media. Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! Same as typewriter ribbon and photo chemicals. July 3, 2012 09:22:07.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

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Apps or Mobile Web: Conversion Rate is Platform Dependent Although comScore’s MobileLens report ending in November 2010 indicates that nearly twice as many smartphone users accessed online retail via a website rather than a native app, that only tells part of the story. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Have an account?

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Bitesize Friday: Israeli startups get funded, launch new products

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B efore we literally kick off the first ball in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, below is a collection of interesting links on Israeli startups and more for the week of June 11th: Interesting startups of the week. One of its platforms, Jivy Inside, will run as the casual games site for TF1 in France. via TheMarker ).