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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. Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis.

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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. ” Replicated now counts 85 customers who pay for access to the platform and for every on-premise deployment that customers develop through the platform.

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

TechCrunch LA

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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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. Interesting that they don't need to see really large markets. - > $100 million (will require significant additional funding). What are they really looking for? What are they really looking for? is a requirement.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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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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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

If your startup went belly-up (the Brits have a much more crude slang term for it) there wasn’t likely somebody lined up to fund your next attempt at a startup. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator?

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