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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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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. Both groups signed up for the deal, as did Lerer Media Ventures, and several other prominent angels—including Josh Stylman and Pete Hershberg, who backed my previous company. What we saw here was Twitter built for the way mainstream users want to connect.

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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. Lisa Nicole Bell , Inspired Life Media Group.) Adam Witty , Advantage Media Group. Have an account?

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral. Simply adding a Twitter share button on your blog or website can make your back catalog go viral. If they found it and read it things pretty much ended there.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Recode on Apple Podcasts. To download and subscribe to Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Recode… itunes.apple.com. As podcasts are a (relatively) new media format?—?their The second level?—?they’re

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How we can fix online video advertising’s weakest links

The Next Web

No matter how you look at it – bandwidth consumption, number of viewers per hour, virality – online video has taken over the Web. Original online content has taken the major steps towards TV standards in terms of production level, content formats, resolution standards, and even media buying methods.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Recode on Apple Podcasts. To download and subscribe to Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Recode… itunes.apple.com. As podcasts are a (relatively) new media format?—?their The second level?—?they’re

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