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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

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Eric is also author of the book The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, And the Rest of Planet Earth , where he documented that experience. Jackson: CapLinked is actually a collaborative platform, a social platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors. How do you do that? Who would find this most useful?

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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. 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. OTHER DEALS: 1. Go Boulder!

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

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Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Geni.com beget Yammer. They came to me 2 years ago with their company, GumGum , and were trying to raise an A round of capital. They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post. They had signed up Glam Media and TMZ. I could go on and on.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

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Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. But if you are growing uber fast, building for scale and have access to capital to fund your growth then it’s always the smart play. Of course I could go on and on including businesses like AirBnB, DropBox, Box.net, Yammer and so on.

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