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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

socalTECH

On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.). What is the Tech City Investment Organization?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. What's the idea behind Sometrics? So who is using your software?

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. What's the idea behind Sometrics? So who is using your software?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. Today’s Normalization. Bottom of the sales funnel. And the future?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 4.0 – Wireless is the next big thing – hurry!

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Finally, we convinced a firm to invest. ► October (1) New Video! . ► October (1) New Video!

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