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AllSay: Using Mobile Apps To Engage Users With Decisions, with Geoff Campbell

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Through their professional services, I ended up investing in a private equity firm called iFormation, which was a three way joint venture between Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic Partners. One thing with AllSay, is it looke like Buzzfeed did in the early days. That was all in digital media.

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Best Reads for Casual Friday: Big Tech Businesses Gets Political

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Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. You’ve made it to Friday. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Jelli - I went on record saying that I wanted to invest and that I think this company will create a big success. It seems to be geared on a “Monopoly” style game. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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When I work with community leaders I often encourage them to “pool capital” together from many angels into a fund structure run by a small investment committee that can make more rapid funding decisions, take more risks (it is pooled capital so goes across more investments), and standardize investment terms.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Or perhaps you think Donald Trumps assessment that BuzzFeed is a “ Failing pile of garbage is correct?” Others are skeptical, “Ha! An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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