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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. As a result of this activity I have now personally returned significantly more capital in my 5 years than I have invested. I have huge confidence in the companies that I’ve backed that are still active.

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Product Development and Management Association - Strategy to Execution in These Trying Times

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 -- Strategy to Execution in These Trying Times Speaker: Barbara Nelson from Pragmatic Marketing Good strategy helps you filter out bad tactics so you can focus on whats most important to your long-term viability in the market. See [link] (more).

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Cytori Therapeutics Gets $10M In PIPE

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The firm said the new funding will be used for sales and marketing activities, ongoing clinical studies, research and development, as well as for general working capital. The firm said the financing may fund its operations through at least 2009. Source of the funding was not disclosed.

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VC IPO Drought Continues

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According to the firm, total merger and acquisition activity only totaled $3.2 billion in the first quarter of 2009, down 65 percent from the $9.1 billion generated in liquidity last year. The numbers were the lowest quarterly totals since 2003.

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Interview with Rob Reed, MomentFeed

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So, what we do, is bring all of that data together into a unified, comprehensive solution, so they can manage all of that activity and data in one place. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. We'll also be ramping sales, as well.

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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. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Time will tell.

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How PointPredictive Is Using Machine Learning To Uncover Fraud, With Tim Grace

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Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. We sold that to CoreLogic in 2009, and that company now has roughly a 60 percent market share of mortgage applications.