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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. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Competitors: Knewton. File sharing?

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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Mindshare LA Brings the Power of “Play” to Santa Monica

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In 2006, Douglas Campbell started Mindshare LA out of the downtown art colony The Brewery. Campbell was new to Los Angeles, freshly inspired from a TED conference, and after attending a smattering of Barcamps and Westside Meetups he was ready to produce his own event that was a mixture of all.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

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He joined Miramar in 2006. Currently an active angel investor (venture capital) with over 20 investments in startup companies, Mr. Sudek sits on the Tech Coast Angels board of governors (the largest angel investment organization in the US). Managing Director of Miramar Venture Partners.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Some Angel groups endorse it. Is that when it became big? was starting. The problem with pitch decks is pitch decks tend to have a lot of fluff in it.