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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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10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

From 2005 to 2009, I was fortunate enough to be part of a small group of New York City innovation community leaders that sowed some of the seeds of the thriving tech hub we have today. How do we enable the creative and entrepreneurial communities to feed off of each other better? At the time, though, we didn't know what we know now.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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The DataPop team is building a platform that enables real time creation and delivery of highly engaging ads to consumers on a massive scale. Built around the iPhone and iPad mobile experiences, their Game Salad platform enables creative professionals and prosumers to quickly make games to engage, to teach or to just have fun.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription).

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How I learned to change the oil in my car and found a new office because of Shake Shack and a hackathon

This is going to be BIG.

In 2009, I was introduced to Havi Hoffman. Stephen is an interesting dude who builds things and wants to enable other people to learn to build things, too. It''s super interesting to go back and trace connections and relationships that led to new opportunities. She was working as a developer evangelist at Yahoo!

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive. It wasn’t until I helped Foursquare raise their seed round in 2009 that many outside VCs even took notice of NYC. Mayors don’t build startup cities.

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

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We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009.

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