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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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HBS Alumni Angels NY new chairman: Jason Klein

David Teten

Competitiveness Project , which challenged the HBS alumni community to address America’s declining competitiveness. We saw over time that our investor group, just like Angel List and most other angel groups, was good at syndication and not so good at leading rounds. 5) Closer ties to the Harvard community. 4) Inclusion.

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