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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Have an account?

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. I wouldn’t negotiate weekend plans via Twitter, or debate a feature with a product team.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO. link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time.

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How we can fix online video advertising’s weakest links

The Next Web

No matter how you look at it – bandwidth consumption, number of viewers per hour, virality – online video has taken over the Web. Original online content has taken the major steps towards TV standards in terms of production level, content formats, resolution standards, and even media buying methods. A revolution! Not anymore.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time. the catalyst.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time.

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