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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. OTHER DEALS: 1. Employees: 20.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. For all those who want to talk about the fragmentation of media and the models for journalism is in trouble; it’s actually not. Digital media?

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Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail

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Usually I tell them to study Upworthy & Buzzfeed. I’m not an investor but truthfully I love Upworthy and its goal is distributing content with a social mission to educate people on complex social issues. And while a YouTube subscriber is useful it is still trapped inside the platform. Here is an example.

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