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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

If you find the right community it’s a great way to learn, contribute and get to know other people with similar interest. What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). AVC: I’ve always loved Q&A websites and discussion boards.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , SF Business Times.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

We finished our first full day at a dinner with Halo , the Northern Ireland Business Angel Network (Alan Watts). Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event. Audiences totaled over three hundred and eighty entrepreneurs, investors and members of the startup community.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings. Joining us in the syndicate are Lerer Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Fuel Capital. But what impressed me most is what happened next.

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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community. Implement digital detox.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Products that were previously not inherently social, will embrace community, stories and sharing to increase stickiness and drive revenue. Social commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4% Snap and Tiktok fighting for users (source: eMarketer ).

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How early should you connect to a VC? Here's some data.

This is going to be BIG.

It''s also not the best way to create a helpful syndicate of investors that share the founder''s vision for the company. One of the most important assets you have is your network--but it''s not your network of founders. It''s the network of people who respect what you can do for a founder enough to make an intro.