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Building the Best Seed Syndicates

View from Seed

At this point, founders find themselves in a luxurious situation of being able to build the best possible syndicate. It’s not necessary to nail down every element of your syndicate simultaneously. Building relationships with multiple partners at the firm. Get early commits to start generating momentum. So too few is not great.

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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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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. We met the next day, along with his partner, Jared Hecht. What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. I knew Jared from his time at Tumblr.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

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. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. 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. link] leehower.

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My new 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. Carlos Eduardo Espinal, a friend, and partner at Seedcamp. The third wave of podcasting.

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Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I think one of the key takeaways is that the exponential growth of Internet connected devices along with the strong viral loops of Facebook and Twitter have served as accelerants for these high growth companies. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. . | Filed under Uncategorized. link] Ashish Datta.