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MAY 19, 2010

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. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. They controlled distribution to the masses. Enter Facebook.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. Rebecca Pontius is co-founder of the Do Good Bus — a transportable community service venture based in Los Angeles, CA. Loren Bendele – CEO of Savings.com.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78