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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. 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. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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GRP Partners Leads Investment In Awe.sm

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has raised $4M in a round which was led by Foundry Group and GRP Partners, and which also included Neu Venture Capital and kps+p Ventures. Awe.sm's tools are used by application developers to monitor and measure social media and sharing activity through their apps. did not announce who at GRP led the investment.

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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. Pourzanjani founded PriceGrabber and sold it to Experian in 2005 for $485M, and is among one of the active angel investors in Los Angeles. According to ELC Technologies, Rahmat takes the helm of ELC. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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3 very active, 3 have been deployed. Those are the three active areas, and we have several customers and have made lots of headway there. As you know, publishers are also going through disruption, magazines are going to digital as well as video, and were helping publishers to go and capitalize on the video side of publishing.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Laurence Sotsky: The big goal for us now, is to continue to drive monthly active users. How did you get into this?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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

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. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Zondigo, Inc. Zondigo, Inc.

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