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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. The company- now has around $50M in recurring annual revenues. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

TechCrunch LA

Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. Companies are raising some angel money or Y Combinator money.” KP used to be a small team doing hands-on company building.

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

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One of the few local funds to recently raise a fund is TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), which just closed TVC Capital II, a $75 million growth equity and buyout fund. As a reminder to our readers, can you talk briefly about TVC and what kinds of companies you invest in? Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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Data Collective | New Dawn for Big Data Entrepreneurs

Tech Zulu Event

The Thursday launch of Data Collective demonstrates the increasing uptake of Big Data and signals a new door for entrepreneurs building Big Data companies. ” Matt Ocko also revealed to Silicon Beat that they have been getting a lot more press inquiries due to the number of deals they were doing. 35+ Equity Partners on board.

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

Both Sides of the Table

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? We spent our future since the equity was artificial. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

As any historian of bubbles will tell you – there were periods of bubbles in assets as arcane as tulips , South American trading companies , dot-com bubbles & housing bubbles. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. In 2011, Business Insider ranked Legal Zoom No.