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Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

InfoChachkie

Citrix promised to operate Expertcity as a separate division and maintain its offices in Santa Barbara and it was unclear if other potential acquirers would have been willing to make, and keep, similar commitments. Do Nothing – Taking no action was the potent competition faced by Citrix. VC Funding Alternative.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. Or perhaps VCs like to carefully guard who has bankrolled them so as not to attract competition? Family Offices (of high-net-worth individuals or families).

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. What is a net loss for us, is when Sequoia or Benchmark flies down on their corporate jet, meets with a company, and tells them to relocate to Northern California.

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Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

InfoChachkie

Citrix promised to operate Expertcity as a separate division and maintain its offices in Santa Barbara and it was unclear if other potential acquirers would have been willing to make, and keep, similar commitments. Doing nothing was the most realistic and potent competition faced by Citrix. Do Nothing. Get Out Of The Zone.

Company 160
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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3