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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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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How Bill Gates Was A Role Model For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In my opinion, Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer, and Paul Allen. You need to convince a thousand partners that they can become winners, if they join you as believers. That’s real viral marketing. Steve came from Procter & Gamble Co., Enlist community of support.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. What have you done so far to validate the concept? What’s different, special here? Where’s the mystery (see Matching Algorithm )?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. What have you done so far to validate the concept? What’s different, special here? Where’s the mystery (see Matching Algorithm )?

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What about other kinds of viral outreach? What’s been done so far to validate the concept? Who are the other stakeholders involved?

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I Knew Bill Gates When He Was a Regular Guy

Startup Professionals Musings

In my opinion, Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer, and Paul Allen. You need to convince a thousand partners that they can become winners, if they join you as believers. That’s real viral marketing. Steve came from Procter & Gamble Co., Enlist community of support.

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