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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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post).

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. Mobile gifting service.

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Map of VC Investments

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

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Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena. The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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

Tech Zulu Event

The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 is a web in which data is linked to allow for more meaningful, actionable insight to be extracted. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

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Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. on your hard drive in PNG-format.

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