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Burn Baby Burn: Is Traditional Licensing of Content Joining the Business Models Torched by New Technology and the Web

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Thursday, October 22, 2009 -- Burn Baby Burn: Is Traditional Licensing of Content Joining the Business Models Torched by New Technology and the Web? What You Need to Know About the New Growth After the Firestorm.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications.

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eHarmony Settles Same-Sex Class Action Lawsuit

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The firm later launched Compatible Partners , a same-sex matching service, in March of 2009, on pressure from the State of New Jersey.

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8th Annual Digital Media Summit

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 -- 8th Digital Media Summit. Past presenters have received millions in funding from our program; and several have sold their company for huge earnings. See [link] (more).

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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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Mobile gifting service. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. This is astounding and myopic in my view.