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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. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures.

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4 Reasons You Might Not Want to Be VC Funded

Up and Running

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. Moseholm and his team never considered taking investment capital.

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Is Crowdfunding for Startups a Good Idea?

ReadWriteStart

A campaign should only be used if your product has a “viral” quality to it. Founders should consider other fundraising possibilities, such as traditional venture capital or angel investment, as well as non-dilutive funding sources such as grants or loans. The crowdfunding act itself becomes a marketing strategy.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I don’t know exactly when the agency to product transfer happened at Buddy, or at what point you can start calling yourself a software company (when service revenues dip below subscription/license revs?), Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the foundational layer of cloud computing, and includes raw storage, compute, backup, disaster recovery, databases, and security. Cloud accounting is all about matching revenue and costs to consumption…well, except for professional services! Venture Capital. (3). Mind the GAAP!

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boldstart ventures in 2014 – our ethos

BeyondVC

Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. Making sense of that data with algorithms and other software is the next wave and is reflected in investments like Coherent Path , klipfolio , security scorecard , and preact.

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What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

Both Sides of the Table

If you don’t know, Ring offers home security products that started with a video doorbell, then video floodlights, outdoor stickup cams and now in-home security features that innovate in-home security alongside outside protection. we were sold on the concept immediately. it was a personal mission.

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