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Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures, On Mental Health And Investing In Founders

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We want to change the culture and framework of the I'm killing it culture of early stage entrepreneurship, where you're expected to hold everything inside, even if you're struggling, and where you don't feel like you have an outlet for the feelings you are experience as you build your business.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. My team based in Glendale is probably 300, and we have another office in Sunnyvale, another in San Francisco, and other people in St. Louis and Atlanta.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. My team based in Glendale is probably 300, and we have another office in Sunnyvale, another in San Francisco, and other people in St. Louis and Atlanta.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square. million loss in 2008.

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More Great News for #LATech – Crosscut Ventures Raises $75 Million Fund

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A seed fund this size (and with increasing numbers of venture funds being raised by LA-based VC’s) has overcome a decade-long resistance and belief that you could only build great tech companies in Silicon Valley. But that was so 2008. The threesome has the perfect mixture of backgrounds to launch a seed fund.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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Ron Paul’s presidential bid, the Arizona League of Conservation Voters and the 2008 California No on Prop. “Choosing to bootstrap over raising venture capital has forced us to build a profitable business,” he said. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep. I look forward to contributing to that achievement.”.