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The year ahead: 2011

This is going to be BIG.

I will start the year on the board of a yet to be announced investment and as an observer on four other companies. There will be an estimated 50+ million tablets sold in the US in 2011, and 36 million of them will be iPads—I’m likely to be a buyer at some point before I head to Strata. My niece will apply to college.

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Garry Tan is the next president and CEO of Y Combinator

TechCrunch

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.”

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. Community builders. So why Greg and why now? Quantitative & analytical.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

TechCrunch

In 2011, the company expanded to build themes for online stores. When Automattic acquired WooCommerce in 2015 , the move went mostly unnoticed in the broader tech community. Even at the board level, we honestly asked if we should even be doing this. WooCommerce logo. Image Credits: Wikimedia.

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Behind the Scenes: Building an Angel Experience You Will Never Forget

Angel Capital Association

She co-founded the Portland Seed Fund in 2011, but also serves as the Director of Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, allowing her to monitor prospective and existing portfolio companies that originate from the university.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Grockit – Provides online adaptive test prep services and community. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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