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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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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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Go Boulder!

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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 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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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Tact stated with a user-centric approach from Day 1.

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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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