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MomentFeed Snags Facebook Vet

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Location-based analytics software firm MomentFeed , which is based in Santa Monica, has turned to a former Facebook executive for advice, the firm said today. According to the startup, it has added former Facebook sales director Rob Lissner as Special Advisor to the CEO, to help shape the firm's product and sales strategy.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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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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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

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Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. This is akin in the US to having sales staff in NY, SF & LA with your HQ in one of these locations. Tags: Startup Advice. It doesn’t seem fair.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capital. Don’t know how much you can charge for your product?

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When Does Venture Debt Make Sense For Your Startup? - The Other Green Money

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During the summer of 2006, I joined RedMojo as an Advisor. Consistent with the advice I outline in Free Advice Worth Half The Price , I was paid solely in equity. Conversely, they may have discouraged and possibly even blocked the sale of the company until such time that they felt their return was maximized.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. He decided that our largest customers would be involved in the setting of our priority lists (we did some of this internally in the early years but we saw it mostly as a sales process).

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble. source: Capital IQ. But it will end. You feel it, too.

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