SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

LA Tech Survival Guide A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles Guide to the LA Startup Community Why You Should Start a Company in. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in.

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 196

SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

LA Tech Survival Guide A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles Guide to the LA Startup Community Why You Should Start a Company in. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in.

Los Angeles 188

Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 188

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. Both companies have attracted a lot of attention – both positive and negative. Wildfire Interactive.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Venture Partners , Rustic Canyon Partners , Binary Pulse Technology. Venture capital for innovators. Rustic Canyon Partners (www.rusticcanyon.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. If you're interested in reaching our.

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SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I have some pretty specific thoughts on the differences between companies in the two cities, as I wrote about in my previous post A Tale of Two Tech Cities. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on their capital calls, we’ll all quickly find the venture community becoming drastically constrained. So what does this mean for internet entrepreneurs?

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Venture Capital Rustic Canyon Capital Clearstone 44

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

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. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We're now at the end of year 3 of the company. That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. It's not like San Francisco, where everyone seems to be in a five mile square radius, and you can get out and walk to other technology companies. The company is going really well.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313