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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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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. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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But relying upon SEO / SEM too much and not building a product and brand that is valued in its own right leaves you reliant upon that channel partner to not change the rules of marketing through their channel. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. But it wasn’t to be.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. You must find ways to get some distribution through other online partners like Hulu or package up shows for distribution on Roku or Xbox. So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

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We have partnered with existing developer communities, including academic communities to offer developer days and workshops. The BBM SDK allows very unique social features to existing and new applications, including the ability to distribute and share applications virally through BB.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo If you want to scale faster you’ll need venture funding, both because of the anemic revenue, and because otherwise you can’t afford to advertise. Think: GoDaddy).

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[Review] The Social Customer

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Neither is it to achieve the greatest reach or “virality” in one’s digital campaign. These necessitate the integration of Social CRM systems with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems to provide seamless end-to-end service to customers and partners.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. They have more page views than even Google.