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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Mobile gifting service. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. -DST invested $180mm last fall. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

socalTECH

Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. But, with Intercasting and our ANTHEM version of MySpace, it's a client integrated into the device. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Many service businesses or eTailers can quickly grow to five or ten million in revenues but struggle to expand further. If Mr. Mason didn’t raise all the outside capital on his way to Groupon’s IPO there is a good chance he would be out of business anyway, in what is now a very competitive and crowded market.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. My brother is actually at Anthem Ventures, working with Bill Woodward, and I was an intern there in business school.