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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. They sponsor TWiVC. Mobile gifting service.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. We started dating, and actually got married.

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2009 Coming To A Close, 2010 Just Around The Corner!

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Advertise and get noticed with us! Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more.

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Interview with Matt Edelman, ThisNext

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We started that in 2006, and sold it to Chicken Soup For The Soul in 2009. Finally, how has the mix of your business changed--are you now more focused on the advertising end, or are you still doing the affiliate revenue ThisNext started out with? So let's talk about ThisNext. What's the focus of the firm nowadays?

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

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building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. 2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. I grew it from 2007 through.