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Rustic Canyon, Steamboat Get Exit At MerchantCircle

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Two Southern California venture capital firms have benefited from an acquisition yesterday of Mountain View-based MerchantCircle , an online local business advertising and networking site, by fellow online advertising firm Reply!

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors and Advertisers!

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Thanks to all of our sponsors and advertisers, who make our coverage of Southern. Thanks this week to our sponsors and advertisers, which include Clearstone. Venture Partners , Rustic Canyon Partners , Binary Pulse Technology. Venture capital for innovators. Rustic Canyon Partners (www.rusticcanyon.com).

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M in 29 venture capital deals for Q1. in investments, IT services--which includes many online advertising firms--was at $35.15M in investments. Tags: venture capital financing investment quarterly moneytree nvca. received in the region in Q1 of 2009.

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Thanks To Our Sponsors

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Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Venture Capital for Technology Innovators. Rustic Canyon Partners (www.rusticcanyon.com). Advertisers. Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Technology.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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One is the “denominator problem&# which says that if an LP invests X% (the denominator) into “alternative investments&# such as venture capital and if their total amount available to invest (the numerator) goes down by 30% then the amount they allocate to VC will by definition need to go down by 30% to stay the same percentage.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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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. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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We're also looking at technology in the retail sector, or which touch the retail supply chain--things like out of home advertising, software to optimize the retail supply chain, and other related areas because we know the retail sector so well. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town.