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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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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. Higher education. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). Not so fast. If you thought people didn’t look at banner ads before , you can imagine how little they look at them on their smart phones.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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When I was looking through their company’s history I saw the following statement made in September 2009: “Takes on WebEx, launches web conferencing and announces its US expansion with 900 US resellers&#. We were doing an educational session on term sheets. Yes, with a “B.&# And soon that will include screen sharing.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. We took $2.3