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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Read more: TechCrunch.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. Ad.ly – (disclosure: I led the funding on Ad.ly) Provides an in-stream advertising platform for any content creator (individual or organization) with an online social presence. . They also avoid Reg D.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US.

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