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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Others I have not. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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Calacanis Backs 15Five

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Jason Calacanis , the Los Angeles angel investor, podcast host, speaker, conference organizer, and CEO of Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in employee feedback firm 15Five.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

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Jackson: CapLinked is actually a collaborative platform, a social platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors. It connects companies with investors, allows investors to forward on referrals to other investors, and once an investment has been made, allows a company to post updates to the site. How do you do that?

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 million Raised. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 and Schlumberger.

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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. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT).

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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Ability to Pivot – I don’t like to invest in people that I’ve never met before who come through my office wanting to have a term sheet within 30 days. VCs often tell entrepreneurs that they want to see “traction&# before they’re ready to invest. Geni.com beget Yammer. I could go on and on.

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

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That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. In B-to-B marketing, it ends up that there were people at GE Capital doing the same jobs at GE Healthcare. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that.