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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial. A CEO should tell her staff everything!

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JULY 21, 2011

Messenger : Paige Craig, CEO BetterWorks, Angel Investor, former Marine. 4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? 1) In addition to running BetterWorks, you are also an Angel Investor. What must a startup do to motivate you to write them a check?

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JUNE 30, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. What is Gamzee all about?

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Bruce, what's your background?

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APRIL 20, 2011

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. Howard states the most successful angel investors are the ones who can place many small bets, increasing the possibility of hitting a home run.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Or, as always, summary notes available below. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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APRIL 25, 2011

Scott Lahman is co-founder of Los Angeles-based GOGII (www.gogii.com), the developer of group text messaging application textPlus. Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. If you have raised a limited amount of money from angels, accelerators or seed funds be very careful about having a high burn rate.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. Meebo angel investors also include Marc Andreessen and Auren Hoffman. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Again, he stressed the importance of good mentors.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We'll even write a half a million check. That as unhealthy. Why do I say that?

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MARCH 25, 2016

In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

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