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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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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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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. Some of the features that AppMakr provides are ad network integration, media galleries, push notifications, etc. Choice of platform depends on your needs as well as the budget.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

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In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. Reason : as soon as someone sits down to outline ways social networks can be monetized, another model emerges, and another model ceases. The middle man is called an ad network. users in 2009.

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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 [.]

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. ► 2009. (2). Varieties of Social Networking: FaceBook, LinkedIn. social networking. (1). Dave Rooney on Application Development Methodologies. ► December. (2).

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