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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. Google Ad Sense was just getting going.

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

socalTECH

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. I'm a bootstrapper, and super-scrappy.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. Let me be very direct. Market Structure.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. What are you working on now?

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

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Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. People are so used to the Google mold. We use our own algorithm, as well as user votes.

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Recycled Bride Wants You To Save On Your Big Day | Wed Without Tears

Tech Zulu Event

Recycled Bride is the world’s largest wedding marketplace; a peer-to-peer platform that connects buyers and sellers of designer wedding dresses, accessories, and anything else wedding-related. TechZulu caught up with Recycled Bride and here is what we found! What is Recycled Bride? When was Recycled Bride founded and where is it based?

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