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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). MetaMarkets.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. -Real-time search engine.