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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There is a lot of pent-up demand. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. ,

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Social network app developer and ad network.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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