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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Primarily because you can launch applications where you focus on a acquiring a user base with a compelling product while not having to worry about how to build your services into a map view or having to build in services that find local businesses, etc.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. Or would it?

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