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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell.

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

Both Sides of the Table

Your sales team is pounding the table because engineering won’t ship new features fast enough. Marketing wants the sales teams to use the materials they’ve produced. This pissed off application developers because it became harder to find apps. And yet you still have scarce resources.