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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. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. They need to be able to communicate as a peer to engineers and management. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

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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. Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry. link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. A lot has changed.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

The phone rings - it was the staffing manager: "Philippe, come in my office, your life is gonna change!". Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Yes, for a couple of years, after which the new plant manager decided to outsourced the whole thing.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

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. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time. itunes.apple.com.

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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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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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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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