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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. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. I was actually at the Hackathon, too… but had missed Steve’s presentation.

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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. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Have an account?

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

We were post product and had viral growth, albeit at very small scale and still had to evangelize the concept of a vital coefficient w/ most investors. link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. link] Terence Donnelly. then we integrate loyalty programs, CRM, etc., to personalize and enrich the experience.

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Broadcasting my links and things I read

Eric Friedman

I recently started using BufferApp both on my phone and my browser to syndicate content to my other networks. Buffer is a web service that takes content from you or others, and syndicates it via a shortened URL across multiple services. I currently have the free account and have connected Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and App.net.

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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. Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer’s important announcement about cutting all of Yahoo’s mobile display ads in favor of native formats was the official tipping point for those who needed one. Not anymore. The future.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

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. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time.

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