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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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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. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Founded in 2007.

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

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billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). 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.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

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In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. The company specialized in optimizing online ad yield by simplifying ad display. DoubleClick.

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Book: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Feld Thoughts

If you hung around me during the 2007 – 2010 time period when I was on the Zynga board, you would have heard me talk with amazement at how easy it was to manipulate people into spending huge amounts of their time tending their virtual farm on FarmVille.

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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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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. They talk about] businesses which are not contractually recurring revenue in the parlance of recurring revenue run rates. Dan has a B.A. with Honors) in Political Science and an M.A.

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

VC Cafe

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. Another revenue stream, says the company is advertising within video streams.