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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Total raised: $29.5mm. 60k unique visitors in March 2010.

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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. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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YouTube Marketing And Analytics: A Primer For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

Some have experimented with virality ( Pepsi Test Drive or Dove Beauty , etc.), Be very careful to not over think it when you frame this step-one to your management team. Again, for your management team you don't have to over think it. but commitment to uniqueness is inconsistent. Don't talk about attribution.

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

mashable.com

It would take an article in itself to fully compare the benefits of these (and other popular ecommerce site providers), but suffice it to say they both offer options for businesses that do not wish to manage the technical aspects of their ecommerce storefront. viral video. viral videos. Global Syndication Partners.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology.

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What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

mashable.com

Brian DiFeo, the Hive’s community manager, says the trend is to be professional but have a sense of humor and be ready for the inevitable group laugh or room-wide joke. With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 4 million followers across social media, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities.