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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. I found this investment strange since normally VC’s hate to bet on gaming companies. Overture sold for $1.6 uh, hello!

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LA’s Replicated looks to increase R&D and hiring for its operations management software after raising $25 million

TechCrunch LA

The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million. As developers embrace Kubernetes, Replicated launches tools to manage its deployments. “Once we started building on that success.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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Amos Schwartzfarb: I have been in and a part of early stage startup companies since the mid 90's, in San Francisco. I left HotJobs, and started another company, with Jake Winebaum, called Work.com, while he was running Business.com. I thought I'd swear off early stage companies, even though I ended up three or four more after that.

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How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups

SoCal CTO

A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital. Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. What are they really looking for? What are they really looking for? What do you really need to prove?

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.

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RingRevenue Calls Up $4M More

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The round was led by GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners, and brings the total raised by the company to $7.5M. RingRvenue develops technology which tracks responses to phone calls, allowing calls to be used for affiliate sales and tracking. Tags: capital venture phone telephone marketing affiliate call ringrevenue.