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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US.

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

Both Sides of the Table

I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. All of my partners at Upfront do. Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. If anything it felt like a public service to founders to me. million from more than 30 investors.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. 2008) [iv]. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts. Acquirer/ Investor.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. Diversified U.S. Diversified U.S.

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What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

mashable.com

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. Have an account? instead of having to travel home. instead of having to travel home. .&#