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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. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M

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USC Spinouts Raised $148M In Last Two Years, Says University

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The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. READ MORE>>.

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

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And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. The VC industry is segmenting – I have spoken about this many times before. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going.

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New Paths Toward Convergence

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Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- "New Paths Toward Convergence" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Sophisticated digital consumer devices such as the iPod, Xbox, Archos PMP, and Mobile Smartphones along with the broadband networks that connect themhave quickly moved the distribution of content to the digital world. See [link] (more).

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. When I started blogging as a VC I had zero idea it would lead to my current audience level of 350,000 page views / month. By the next Monday we had lost the deal to a NorCal VC. I have to love both – but it’s in that proportion.

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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