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AwesomenessTV Acquires Big Frame

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Big Frame had been venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Daher Capital, DFJ Frontier, LaunchPad LA, New World Ventures, The Media Farm and Social Starts, and angels Diego Berdakin, Dave Goldberg, Peter Gotcher, Clark Landry, Adam Lilling and Dan Murray. The company had a $3.0M Series A funding back in 2012. READ MORE>>.

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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

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Demand offers up a network of online, content driven web sites--plus a healthy domain name registration business--and has garnered lots of attention for specifically creating content for search engines. MySpace Connection : Shawn Gold , former SVP Marketing and Content at MySpace. www.cocodot.com). Platform G / Mindjolt.

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Three Southern California Firms Building Blog Empires

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The firm has been squarely aimed at the content and blog world, with recent hires of editors from AOL's PopEater, and TMZ.com, to help build out its sites. Venture backed by Anthem Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Focus Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and others. The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I think everybody heard about this acquisition. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). M&A Discussion. No big surprise. Other Deals.

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising. We caught up with Kelly Tompkins, the firm's founder and CEO, to hear more about the firm. Thanks for the interview.

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