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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. I have been lucky to have been around both parts of corporate IT and application development teams, and on the infrastructure side.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. So you're making multiple applications? The more and more we looked into the idea, we saw there was a huge market for retailers. 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.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches? READ MORE>>.

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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"

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Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. She was a keynote panelist at BlogWorld 2009 and has been a guest on the Peter B. Christina holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

Tech Zulu Event

After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. Peter Yoder, my long-time film producer, wanted to get involved so we start up Rocksauce Studios to focus on making beautiful, distinctive applications which gave users what they wanted and had a chance to succeed in the market place.

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