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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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In the past 5 years some of the best investors in the country could simply anoint winners by giving them large amounts of capital at high prices and then the media hype machine would create awareness, talent would race to join the next perceived $10bn winner and if the music never stops then everybody is happy. Except the music stopped.

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Donut Media's Matt Levin On Creating A New Car Enthusiast Brand

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Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. Donut Media is venture backed by Techstars Ventures, 3311 Ventures, Fontinalis Partners and professional driver Ryan Tuerck.

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The brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mail

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“It’s now possible to open up a whole new scalable media channel by leveraging the same data driven insights and quantitative approach as digital.”. million in seed funding from the Los Angeles-based firms Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures to expand its business (maybe through direct marketing?).

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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

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million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. The post Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding appeared first on TechZulu.

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Why Sidevision Is Tying Content, E-Commerce Together, with Justin Wu

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We recently spoke with co-founder and CEO, Justin Wu to learn more about the company, which so far has received a small seed funding from Warner Bros. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator. How did you get involved with the Warner Media Camp? What is Sidevision all about? READ MORE>>.

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Hiring Bounty Wants To End The Frustration Caused By Recruitment Agents

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I studied a Business Science with Honours in Marketing at University of Cape Town. As an employer in the Social Media age I find it ground breaking.” Bootstrapping or seed funded? He told TechZulu,”I figured the market could do with some alternatives.” ” Here is the interview in full.

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Huddlewoo Wants To Connect You To Mentors You Admire Through Online Video

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He attended The Ohio State University where he studied business. Any funding yet? We have received seed funding from a friend and it is personally funded. Will Zell (CEO) is based in Columbus, OH, and is an Empact100 entrepreneur who was honored at The White House in 2011. That’s cool!

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