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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. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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If you're an NCAA fan, and you've loaded the app for your favorite team, there's a high likelyhood that the app is actually the product of El Segundo-based Hopscotch (www.gohopscotch.com). Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). I’ll explain in detail below. I like that. it has built in iPad support from Day 1.

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Interview with Bryan Biniak, Connected Travel

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We're applying that same platform and are now using it for information, commerce, and advertising in vehicles. Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store. We had an advanced application development and innovation team. We want to make your drive time much more productive.

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Interview with Jed Simon, FastPay

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Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. On one hand, you've got publishers, on the other, advertisers. Tell us a little bit about what FastPay is about?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 4.0 – Wireless is the next big thing – hurry!

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Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Internet advertising is good. Build a SWAT team 3. How will we.

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