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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. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. I knew Jared from his time at Tumblr. GroupMe is more than just a way to text in groups.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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What are the biggest global events for Venture Capitalists and Business Angels where they can learn about their own business?

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Further down the scale are the regional events that the organizations put on, which usually combine regional investment syndication with classes and tutorials. The group’s respective web sites list these events. A calendar of many of these is available from the NVCA web site: NVCA and Industry Events. Venture Capitalists.

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Does Your New Year’s Resolution Include Reorganizing Your Data? Cross That Off The List Right Now!

YoungUpstarts

by running on an individual PC, across a network, over an “on premises” web server, or on a remote platform like Microsoft Azure or AWS. That way, an index can hold ordinary documents, email files and web-based data enabling integrated search. The post Does Your New Year’s Resolution Include Reorganizing Your Data?

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

In indubitably, the project will be saddled with a set of business analysts whose richest experience with an advanced system has been to browse some web pages or order something online. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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Never Say No to Networking

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In thirty days, I went from no relationships at Yahoo to three warm introductions to power players who could make my desired content syndication partnership happen. Sign up for events newsletters in your industry ( The Fetch and Charlie ODonnells This Is Going to Be BIG are good examples for the New York City area). Contact Us.