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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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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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She hasn’t raised any venture capital. One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

socalTECH

After talking with Constantine and the team, I was amazed at the market dynamics, and how well we are positioned to capitalize on it. I got involved talking with Constantine, to see if I could poke as many holes as I could in the business, and found that it is completely bullet proof. Do users buy or rent these?

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

socalTECH

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and others have had to raise tons of capital and have super-solid foundations to go with the hyper-local play. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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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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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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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. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

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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. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

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