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Building the Best Seed Syndicates

View from Seed

At this point, founders find themselves in a luxurious situation of being able to build the best possible syndicate. I believe it’s more important to optimize on the right lead investor vs. the highest valuations at the seed stage (within reason). It’s not necessary to nail down every element of your syndicate simultaneously.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. -CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

The reports showcase raw data, analytics, visualizations, and benchmarking statistics on the company from dozens of sources, including team, intellectual property, technology, product, financial, banking, marketing, customer, risk, valuation, and investment information.”. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

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For consumer social, you need amazing virality, engagement, and hundreds of thousands of DAUs. You may actually need to raise a few financing rounds just to get to a series A, so think about the syndicate you are constructing (will they be loyal to you?),

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Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Multi-billion dollar valuations for late stage startups like Dropbox, et al. I think one of the key takeaways is that the exponential growth of Internet connected devices along with the strong viral loops of Facebook and Twitter have served as accelerants for these high growth companies. Filed under Uncategorized. link] Ashish Datta.

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Diversification – The Alternative to Market Timing

Rob Go

Valuation Discipline. We have a pretty strong sense of what realistic valuation ranges are and aren’t for seed stage companies. We try to maintain a pretty steady investment pace each year, although it tends to ebb and flow a little bit based on our deal flow and valuations in the market. Syndicate diversification.