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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. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. He’ll discover the value. OTHER STUFF.

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

TechCrunch LA

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Fulcrum Ties With Aquantia On Reference Design

socalTECH

Calabasas-based Fulcrum Microsystems , a provider of high speed Ethernet switching chips, and Aquantia , which develops 10GBASE-T PHY semiconductors, said this morning that the two have tied together in releasing a new, 48-port 10GBASE-T Ethernet Switch reference design. READ MORE>>.

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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. A few things jumped out at me: - Experience in sales or technology - considered a minor negative? They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Not sure why.

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RingRevenue Calls Up $4M More

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the provider of pay-per-call, performance marketing technology run by Jason Spievak, said this morning that it has closed on $4M more in a new round of funding. RingRvenue develops technology which tracks responses to phone calls, allowing calls to be used for affiliate sales and tracking.

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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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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. That was four years ago.

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