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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. 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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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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When I tell audiences that Americans consume 6 hours of video per day people seldom believe me (thus I publish the data). Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). As I point out frequently, people want to consume video.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. Obviously, you need to promote these events via multiple digital and traditional marketing channels. They won’t find you. Be prepared to give away to participants something memorable that they actually want.

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

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SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. That channel giveth and then taketh away so you had millions of users who had not grown accustomed to the feature set of Viddy and thus didn’t stick around.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Target audience may be limited or new due to price. This may require you selling exclusivity, doing channel development, or alliances with new partners. To win in this environment, you may need to expand your leadership in industry conferences and community activities. Another approach is to expand your scope geographically.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup. hours of TV / day. And he has truly been a pleasure to work with.

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