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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Go Boulder!

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Sabena Quan-Hin, Marketing Manager at Flow Capital , wrote, “There are two crucial aspects of marketing that investors often overlook: automation and analytics.

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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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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&#

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms.

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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. the catalyst.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. Venture Capital. (3). "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. internet. (6).