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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Go Boulder!

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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. It’s not only the publishers; writers need to be educated too. We are hoping to educate new writers. This is where Assignmint comes in.

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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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