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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. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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Interview with J.R. Johnson, Lunch.com

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Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. It was user generated content for travel, but back in 1999, before we'd really seen the movement toward user generated content. How long has Lunch.com been running?

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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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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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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Interview with Albert Ko, DealPerk.com

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I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others?

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Interview with Dave Newmark, Bid4Spots On Google, Radio, and more

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A station might not want that kind of content on the air. Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. Advertisers really want to be able to separate themselves from their competition, and radio stations want to separate themselves from the competition.

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