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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

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But person-to-person communications is vital to enabling democracy and you can’t deny the role of media in driving social change. I’ve lived and worked all over the world so I’m not so naïve as to think that social media ensures revolution or even explains it.

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Oxfam Novib and Goodwell target East African startups with €20M Pepea fund

TechCrunch

The fund targets high-impact tech-enabled businesses, “because the combination of tech and brick-and-mortar works best in these environments. Tech enables access and affordability, and both are elementary for the end-users we aim to reach, the lower income groups on the continent,” said Goodwell Investments, managing partner, Els Boerhof.

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Liberis, the embedded finance provider for SMEs, raises additional £70M in equity and debt

TechCrunch

To date, 2007-founded Liberis has provided over £500 million in financing to 16,000 SMEs across Europe, the U.S. Liberis’ core business is to enable partners to offer embedded business finance to their customers,” Rob Straathof, CEO of Liberis, tells TechCrunch. and the U.K. the product is available in five new countries: U.S.,

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Gregg was built to scale large companies and build the processes and team to enable it. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. Jason was a creator and saw a market opportunity that others didn’t.

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Digital Health Becoming a Reality

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It’s a wi-fi enabled scale that measures your weight, body fat and BMI (body mass index). In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. Enter Withings.

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