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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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10 Awesome DIY Tools To Create Your Own Mobile App

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Founded in 2009, AppMakr is a very popular DIY app development platform that enables you to build content based native apps for Android and iPhone. The basic plan charges just $1/mo enabling you to develop a native Android app and the unlimited plan is available for $39/mo. The paid plans start from just worth 2.99 $/mo.

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2012 Will Be The Year Of The Empowered Merchant, says Schedulicty

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With the launch of Siri, Apple’s new voice-activated personal assistant application, developers will be hard at work on incredible voice-activated apps that will not only help small business productivity, but offer a unique way for businesses to stand out in the eyes of the consumer. 2012 begins the Year of the “Digital Coupon Book.”.

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Being Too Early and VC Self Improvement

This is going to be BIG.

One did note that " this kind of platform is going to change the way we educate people in application development ". It was even earlier when I talked to Jason at Shopkeep--December of 2009 by my records. Good for him--I'm happy to see him get resourced to built out his vision.

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Small Business Owners View Mobility As Critical, Says AT&T

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billion in 2009 to more than $5 billion in 2013, a compound annual growth rate of about 19%. In fact, according to AMI-Partners, a market research firm, U.S. small business (1 to 99 employees) for smart phone device and data services will more than double from $2.5

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Help says: January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm [.] Reply Consulting CTO’s « Kunal’s Blog says: August 17, 2009 at 1:12 pm [.]