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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. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies.

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

Sweat equity. This unpaid work component is sized in dollars, added to any funds contributed, to represent the total contribution of a founding partner and converted to an equity ownership percentage in a new startup. Equity crowdfunding. Expect your skills, insights and motivation to be tested -- so be prepared.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. ShoeDazzle.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

Andrei Zimiles, President of Doctor.com (a World Accelerator domain) said, “From day one, the Doctor.com brand has been invaluable to our growth and has opened doors with many players in the market which we are now proud to call partners. First, any branding and SEO equity you built up under the old name are jeopardized.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

There is, indeed, a competition between angel investors and venture capital firms, which can only be an advantage for entrepreneurs who are thus stimulated to choose wisely their future business partners. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups.