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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. Personally, I’m incredibly psyched about the scope of the vision and feel very lucky to be working with such a promising young team.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally.

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

View from Seed

For consumer social, you need amazing virality, engagement, and hundreds of thousands of DAUs. Or maybe your market hasn’t quite developed as quickly as you’d hoped. You may actually need to raise a few financing rounds just to get to a series A, so think about the syndicate you are constructing (will they be loyal to you?),

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When good things happen to good people: SinglePlatform acquired by Constant Contact

This is going to be BIG.

The hard sale was never going to work and so he went about developing a better methodology--one about being supportive of the customer and thinking about how what you did made their life easier. It struck me that nowhere else were kids this age getting their personal development cared about in the same way.

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