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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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Story Crawler

Daradiction

One of the benefits of networking for me has been connecting with so much talent, and the icing on the cake is being able to beta some of these bleeding edge products before they hit the market, giving me a competitive advantage. For example: Brightkite (Made pals with co-founder Brady at sxsw and they ended up sponsoring Roadtwip 2009 even!

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

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Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009. AngelList has introduced new competition and competition in any industry is always good. A Quick Look at Jody’s Previous Success.

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