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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. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

In a few months, we are likely to see the annual Forbes Midas list of top performing early stage VC investors. Interestingly, it looks like the Midas List skipped 2010 and changed methodologies considerably in 2011, so you’d need to wait until 2021 to do a true look back. I find this super impressive.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.” In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010.

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RISE 2010 Registration Open

Austin Startup

The fourth annual Relationship and Information Series for Entrepreneurs (RISE) returns to Austin, Texas, March 1-5, 2010 with five full days of free sessions covering a wide range of topics of interest to aspiring, new and established entrepreneurs in all industries.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Ok, I get a lot of these.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. – That’s a tough question that as of 2010 is a hard to know for certain.