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MAY 19, 2010

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. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). No doubt the platform that Francisco built will take Twiistup 7 to a whole different level. Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that. Let’s be clear: AngelList doesn’t scare a single VC I know. It is a communication platform. But it’s not cutting VCs out.

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