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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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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. What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. I wouldn’t negotiate weekend plans via Twitter, or debate a feature with a product team.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO. link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time.

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

View from Seed

I think it’s much better to think of things in terms of company milestones , which are: Inception –> Early Product-Market Fit –> Strong PMF –> Scaling Growth. Over a third of our investments happen pre-product (so by definition, before PMF), and two-thirds are pre-revenue.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. 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.

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When good things happen to good people: SinglePlatform acquired by Constant Contact

This is going to be BIG.

The hard sale was never going to work and so he went about developing a better methodology--one about being supportive of the customer and thinking about how what you did made their life easier. It struck me that nowhere else were kids this age getting their personal development cared about in the same way. The answer: it wasn't.

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