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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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Part 1: Inside the mind of an angel investor and how it differs from professional seed investors and VC. At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. A typical VC (A round) will reserve at least 100-200% of initial investment.

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