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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pourzanjani founded PriceGrabber and sold it to Experian in 2005 for $485M, and is among one of the active angel investors in Los Angeles. As part of the acquisition, ELC founder Siegel joins venture capital firm Accel Partners in London, as a venture partner. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

This week's release of a list of their "Top 100" venture capitalists by AlwaysOn -- based roughly on number and dollar amount of successful M&A and IPO deals between October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009--seems to have skipped local Southern California venture capitalists, with only one Southern California VCs listed.

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JULY 30, 2012

At the time, Levinsohn had just formed a Los Angeles venture capital fund, Fuse Capital, in a deal with Best Buy, and invested in at least one company here, Tecca.

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JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. Brad & Jason’s, Venture Deals , aims to change this. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Drag along rights? That sounds fine to me.

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JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. ” I met with him several times and had tried to bring him onto deals I was working on but his practice wasn’t yet geared up to handle the earliest-stage deals. He knows every startup & VC in town.” He was a mensch.

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APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 see deal evaluations the Foundry way)”. was starting.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2 billion in deals.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Either of these are obviously fine in angel deals.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. Steve notes that in 2005, when Four Steps was published, conventional wisdom at business schools was that, “Startups are nothing more than a smaller version of a large company.

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APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. A round investor implies they are the “first institutional money in the deal.&# GRP Partners is stage agnostic. We’ll invest $500k in a seed stage deal, $2 million in an A round or $8-10 million in a B round investment or later. Maybe even less.

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APRIL 14, 2010

I know that the tone of the title and post will seem a bit aggressive for a post from a venture capitalist on fund raising. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Dealing with an artificially high price can make fund raising hard. Clean up your own shite.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. Part 2 discussed the need for domain knowledge since merely “joining the right club deal&# will in no way determine success. For that reason I don’t even look at deals in the biotech or clean tech fields. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. You Can’t Sign This Deal. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Tesla is not.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. Part 2 discussed the need for domain knowledge since merely “joining the right club deal&# will in no way determine success. For that reason I don’t even look at deals in the biotech or clean tech fields. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. Thanks for the time today. Our only customers are merchants.

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Startup Mobile Culver City Los Angeles 177

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

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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. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior.

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JULY 18, 2013

Thanks to that activity, a new, venture investor has moved into town, Core Innovation Capital (www.corevc.com) , to specifically take advantage of those opportunities. Arjan Schutte: I''ve been investing in this space since 2005, and consistently, fifty percent of our dealflow is from California. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2010

Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. So, shortly after our licensing discussions in the early part of this year, we discovered that there were even more licensing deals we should be having, and became M&A discussions. Quinn, thanks for the time. What's the story behind the acquisition?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to founding MuckerLab, Erik was most recently at Harrison Metal Capital where he helped lead one of the most successful seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. TX Zhuo , Managing Partner @ Karlin Ventures. TX is the Managing Partner of Karlin Ventures and has been involved in the startup space since his college days.

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Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

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JULY 13, 2009

This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). 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. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? That as unhealthy.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors. with Charles River Ventures as the lead, with First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and a number of angels participating. Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005.

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

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APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. The Biggest Deal That Got Away? A few deals have been funded through this program. and Half.com.

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Capital Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 284

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JUNE 22, 2011

And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. There are fewer big deals than people imagine. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. Why does all this matter?

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. In that position, Scot served as Executive Producer of the QB Club Chanel, a joint venture with the NFL. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). In the first incarnation of Baroda Ventures, he only worked alone.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness. Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

At the same time, we made it clear that we were flattered by their interest and that we were happy to continue our discussions and further explore if a reasonable deal could be crafted. Senior management was more concerned with ensuring a cultural fit with our acquirer, rather than squeezing the last dollar out of the deal. Do Nothing.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A few sponsorship spots still available for early 2010 events: TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. Custom ad deals and partnerships. . . Are you interested?

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My career in the venture startup world started in about 1984--I'm not a completely young guy--and I actually did about ten years in venture capital. Back in the early days of LA venture capital, I was first an associate of a fund, and then partner of a fund, Entertainment Media Venture Partners.

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Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. We were involved in the Gradient X deal, and that was a nice one. There''s a lot of buyers looking for companies.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd try something different, and put together a virtual panel of venture capitalists to give us a few tips on pitching your company. They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. billion exit.

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