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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. Lots of VCs had been burned in the bubble and enthusiasm about consumer internet companies was very much a contrarian view at the time.

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

View from Seed

Over a third of our investments happen pre-product (so by definition, before PMF), and two-thirds are pre-revenue. For a marketplace or ecommerce business, you need to be doing well north of $5M in annual revenue or GMV to get an A round done. FWIW, at NextView, we invest from inception to strong PMF.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. The third wave of podcasting.

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Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Revenue ramp of Groupon and Zynga –> Kleiner famously said Zynga was the fastest growing company they’d ever invested in , no mean feat for the original backers of Google, Amazon, Netscape, etc, and Groupon might be the fastest ever startup to reach $1B in revenue. Filed under Uncategorized. link] Ashish Datta.

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

This is going to be BIG.

When we first syndicated the seed round with other investors, some people didn't get it. It was tough to get the market excited if you weren't doing viral photosharing. Not everyone was enthusiastic about this company, though. Their success became almost routine. Powering Foursquare's menu data?

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. The third wave of podcasting.

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