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Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Silicon Valley Bank is big supporter and has been a sponsor of socaltech for many, many years. we're proud to be part of one of the world's most vibrant innovation ecosystems with some of the fastest growing companies and most creative entrepreneurs. Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen of Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients.

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How Kixer Is Connecting Mobile Web Users To Apps

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What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. We bought SheKnows for a couple of million, and six years later Evolve sold that to a private equity company for over $100M. Keith Bonnici: Both myself and my two other cofounders have seven years in publishing.

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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com

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Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 If you want to buy something, we want you to FindTheBest. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. You mentioned you had been on the investment side of things -- what pushed you to become an entrepreneur? But, at the en dof the day, the value is created at the entrepreneur level.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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Where there are lots of players focused on different types of equity, different types of investments, different types of debt, they're doing it in a very unfocused manner. That specific type of asset is first position, real estate debt, in an area of real estate that is called hard money loans. Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion.