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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. billion to Yahoo! plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. 6mm in Series A : RRE Ventures ( James Robinson, IV ), Village Ventures , Contour Venture Partners , and Lowercase Capital.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Anyone can talk a good game, and put together a proforma that looks great, and there are lots of great looking ideas, and people can even all have filed a provisional patent.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.

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Grokker Wants to Help You Cook, Keep Fit and Meditate

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Prior to founding Grokker, I was President of publicly traded Move Inc and also held a number of executive positions at Yahoo! Grokker’s patent-pending approach allows us to cost effectively shoot and produce beautiful, compelling video classes of all kinds at scale. I founded Grokker in 2012. I am a retired Internet executive.

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Interview with Dave Waldman, Bccthis

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I have been involved with a number of companies that had raised a large amount of money, and one of the things I really wanted to do, was do something that didn't require a large amount of venture capital--something that we could do with a small, lean team. So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up.

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ConTraps Part II – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

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As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. If there is not a valid business reason for granting one-sided terms, reject the language on the grounds that it is patently unfair.