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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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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. What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. Personally, I’m incredibly psyched about the scope of the vision and feel very lucky to be working with such a promising young team.

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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. It’s not necessary to nail down every element of your syndicate simultaneously. These are the top consideration I can think of in building seed syndicates. Get early commits to start generating momentum.

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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viral video. viral videos. Global Syndication Partners. Social Media. social networking. steve jobs. television. video games. About Mashable. Mashable is a leading source for news, information and resources for the Connected Generation. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

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Create Viral Content Infographics startup Visual.ly We took the creative approach with our messaging as well as integrated Facebook and Twitter to encourage virality. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.