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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. Investors: FirstMark Capital (Amish Jani)(lead), with existing investors: Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Reid Hoffman. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

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Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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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. For entrepreneurs raising capital, the tool makes it easier to be transparent and share information. Who would find this most useful? Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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

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million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation.

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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. Go Boulder!

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

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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 also raised money from Howard Morgan at First Round Capital who if you check out his bio you will see is legendary.

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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

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If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. Many other great companies are not. - It started socially.

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