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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. It was an investment management class.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

socalTECH

We got a relatively large client in 2008, after three years of chugging along, and that's when we knew that was the business we should be focusing on. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. Did you take investment initially? Fundraising was something we just weren't investing in.

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Interview with Dr. Ramin Sadr, Mojix

socalTECH

Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal.

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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

socalTECH

They see an almost immediate payback in a month or two on the investment they make in BlackLine. Therese Tucker: My background is technology. It's unusual to have a CEO from the technology side, they're usually from sales. Another thing is the ROI studies we've had done outside our firm by Nucleus Research.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.