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By Ben Popper 7/14/11 9:27am

For Venture Capital It Is the Best of Times, It Is the Worst of Times

Earlier this week Betabeat reported on some findings from the National Association of Venture Capital, which showed that while the number of firms raising capital was shrinking, the amount of dollars put into VC the first half of 2011 was actually up 70 percent over the same period in 2010.

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