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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. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but. Posted by: Darren Stuart | September 10, 2007 4:53 AM What an excellent article! Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 6:28 AM Excellent post! Cant wait for more ;).

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Startup Pivot Stories #1: How TokBox Changed Its Business Model

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TokBox launched a no-download consumer video chat/video conferencing service in 2007, but in November 2010, changed its business model to allow any business that wants to engage consumers on their site in completely new ways to do so, via mutli-way video. The new premise is: Group video chat made simple. Have your own pivot story?

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Would You Outsource Your Startup to a SaaS?

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The post asks if startups would be interested in a service that offered an API and other services to launch a startup. Clay Loveless Some of this is already available from prefinery.com -- specifically, the "Launch Page API" seems to describe what Prefinery already does, which is handy indeed. Developer Regan Wolfrom wrote the post.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

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Click Allow Click Install Now After downloading, Restart Firefox 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups by Alex on December 18, 2007 · 13 comments Even 5 years ago an approach to infrastructure in a startup would have been different. Google Analytics is packed with features, but more importantly it has an API. Startups!!!

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

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He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. We were basically emailing Excel workbooks back and forth to our bank partners every day.