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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

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As you become a large, open network for referral traffic your long-term strategic value goes up. But person-to-person communications is vital to enabling democracy and you can’t deny the role of media in driving social change. So we value things like &# referral traffic&# much less. That’s the Google lesson.

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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. We now serve many large clients like Dish Networks, Dignity Health, and U.S. Gregg was built to scale large companies and build the processes and team to enable it. Jason was a creator and saw a market opportunity that others didn’t.

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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

While the buyer may eventually integrate your back-office systems, IT stack, and supply and logistics networks, they will first ask whether they could take a hands-off approach and still get value. People join boards for many reasons, but one of them is to leverage their networks.

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Digital Health Becoming a Reality

Both Sides of the Table

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. Social networking meets online personal health management.

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Singapore’s Apeiron Bioenergy Raises SGD 50 M in Asia’s First Bioenergy-focused Bond Offering

AsiaTechDaily

Established in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore , Apeiron Bioenergy is a globally integrated player in the bioenergy sector. Chen stated, “This successful issuance enables Apeiron to expand our operations and solidify our position as a frontrunner in the bioenergy sector.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses.