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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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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. Naturally, the cash follows and online video advertising became the fastest growing segment in the advertising world, doubling every two years. Meanwhile, in the advertising space….

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. 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.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. The third wave of podcasting.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. The third wave of podcasting.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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