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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

I think you’ll also see more intentional syndication of seed and series A rounds with like-minded co-investors teaming up together and splitting rounds more intentionally. In a FOMO world, seed and series A investors are more likely to extend beyond the bounds of their stated strategy to get access to companies.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

Both Sides of the Table

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. This narrative has been confirmed to me by several senior studio executives.

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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

Leading companies are focusing on the development and distribution of dynamic mobile apps, reaching consumers and potential consumers on the one device that is never far from reach. New releases can be distributed and sold directly to the consumer via the mobile app. What about small businesses?

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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

One needs to evaluate their go-to-market strategy, distribution channels, scalability, execution team, and so on at this time. Syndicates Those in charge of a syndicate are called “syndicate leads.” The earliest investors in a business are usually syndication.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places. This is not what Nextview is about.

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

Services such as Moz Local, Localeze, Infogroup, Factual and more distribute lists of small business info to major directories and can help correct the issues in a matter of weeks or months. Additionally, it is critical to make sure to syndicate out descriptions rich with keywords. Syndicate Content Out, Build Links In.

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