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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an earlystage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today. They are not looking to benefit by partnering with your company.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

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simply arent crucial to success or failure, and for an early stage startup that means they were wastes of time — you could have done 10x more with that same amount of time and resources." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. Assuming Virality. "A Services dont spontaneously go viral.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Establish credibility with potential partners.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

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I’m an early-stage investor. I normally look to invest my first money below a $20 million valuation and when deals get to lofty prices I normally bow out to later-stage investors who have deeper pockets. In the B round we invested the maximum amount we could alongside the lead – Scale Venture Partners.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

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Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Top From Our Partners. viral video. viral videos. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Global Syndication Partners. 50,295 followers. 0 followers.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

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No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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