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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I know this because you’re not a young teenager. I could go on & on.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Professional expert networks allow you to efficiently convert your financial capital into relationship capital. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 6) Negotiate deal.

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Angel Investors want to fall in love

Austin Startup

It doesn’t make any sense to pitch a later stage, “growth” investor with your seed stage idea just like it doesn’t make much sense to pitch a new tech startup to an investor who only does oil & gas. Leverage your local network and social network to figure out who the most active local angel investors are.

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Top 5 Live Streaming Software Solutions

The Startup Magazine

You can go with the base plan for starters and choose to upgrade in the later stages for additional features such as full API access and multiple monetization options. Built-in social media integrations with popular social networking platforms. Multiple monetization options. 2. Vidizmo.

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How a Seed-Stage Startup Should Think About Brand: A Conversation With Jesse Derris

View from Seed

My advice is simple: Go talk to someone who understands earned media (mainly press) long before you have a need for it — in many cases before you even have a fully developed product or brand. If you’re building a product that can grow virally—a social network, for example—brand is almost certainly less important at launch than product.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Mari Holds a B.A. Teten: How should founders approach corporate VCs?