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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. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

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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. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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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. Depending on who you are, and where you are, we can deliver different advertising. How did you get into this?

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. I like that. Now, the details … 1.

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Interview with Bryan Biniak, Connected Travel

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We're applying that same platform and are now using it for information, commerce, and advertising in vehicles. We had an advanced application development and innovation team. We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage.

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Crowdfunder Hosts 1st Crowdsourced Startup Contest | Crowdstart LA

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The event was sold out, attracting founders, angels, VC’s and future entrepreneurs in the LA Startup Community. A total of 10 startups made up of 5 companies that received the most votes from the crowd and 5 companies chosen by the Angels and VC judges pitched in front of a live audience for a chance of winning $25,000 in funding.

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Interview with Jed Simon, FastPay

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Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. On one hand, you've got publishers, on the other, advertisers. Tell us a little bit about what FastPay is about?