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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

socalTECH

To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What do you mean by social targeting? So who is using your software?

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What do you mean by social targeting? So who is using your software?

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

Both Sides of the Table

Google was n-o-t-h-i-n-g! 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. Yes, even Google has to make these tough decisions about where to allocate staff and money. We were innovating.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. Mobile devices deliver “bottom of funnel” sales opportunities that deliver real & immediate economic results. Mobile devices deliver “bottom of funnel” sales opportunities that deliver real & immediate economic results. Morning in VC.