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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. 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.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. Why is that?

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Two reasons: One, they had no other real choice.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. Spawning of Micro VCs. These people understand that the nature of startups have changed.

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

TechCrunch

CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009. As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year.

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New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase

TechCrunch

Stein, who began her career as a holistic nutrition counselor, started the company in 2009 after going back to school and learning about superfood ingredients and food as medicine, a concept that wasn’t as popular then as it is now. “It It felt like an opportunity in the market for products to help people,” she told TechCrunch. “We

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The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

TechCrunch

I distinctly remember being impressed by the possibilities of D&D on an original Microsoft Surface… back in 2009. “They see the digital crossover is going to happen — people are playing online board games now. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before.