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APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. Let me explain: 1.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Venture capitalists, or VCs, are the folks with millions upon millions of dollars to invest in companies such as theirs. This includes the folks that funded Google and Yahoo and Netflix and Ebay, and many of the great recent companies which were able to start and grow to massive scale in just a short period of time.

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APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, I don’t.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

I’m often asked by people, “how do I get into VC?&# Well, I know 3-4 VC jobs that are publicly available. Every time I do recruiting I get somebody who says, “I’m willing to take a step back in my career to work in VC.&# This isn’t likely to appeal to us. Tags: VC Industry. Self starter.

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MAY 4, 2010

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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JULY 22, 2013

The funding came from Cantor Ventures, the venture capital arm of New York investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Topline Game Labs is led by David Geller, the prior Global Head of Fantasy Sports at Yahoo! topline games fantasy sports marketplace venture capital content yahoo' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Wilson is a longtime Southern California technology veteran, having served as an executive at such companies as Overture Services, Yahoo!, Momentum Ventures, and other local startups. Wilson is also well known for starting Innovate Pasadena, the local nonprofit which helps focus on Pasadena's high tech ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Pasadena-based Calibrate Ventures , a venture capital firm that says it invests in advanced technologies, has added two Venture Partners to the company. According to the firm, it has added Aime Leifer and Dan Murray to its team. and Overture. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2014

The funding came from Canaan Partners, and also included A Grade Investments, Pejman Mar Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, and Jerry Yang (Yahoo). washio venture capital laundry pickup smartphone mobile launder service uber' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. -Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a

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MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. As noted in What Does VC Traction Really Mean? , What’s The Worst Mistake?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, and angels. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2013

Lynch and Curry are technology veterans, having managed cloud deployments for Yahoo and Ticketmaster. metacloud venture capital cloud computing private openstack rackspace deployment management software' The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. in its new round of funding, which was led by Emergence Capital Partners. Other investors, aside form Anthem and DFJ Frontier, were RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and Square 1 Bank.

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JULY 17, 2012

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures is backing a Bay Area gift card-based, payment network, Openbucks , as part of a Series A funding for Openbucks. According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

David Bohnett , the founder of Geocities.com, and currently head of Los Angeles venture capital firm Baroda Ventures , has been appointed as a Trustee to the John F. Baroda Ventures has invested in such companies as DogVacay, GradientX, GraphEffect, LifeCrowd, OVGuide, SurfAir, and Retention Science, among others.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Wilson has previously led venture capital firm Momentum Venture Management, and also was an executive at Yahoo/Overture Services, RiverOne, and Bowne & Co.; he has also been extensively involved in Innovate Pasadena, which is helping to bring together the Pasadena technology and design ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. These are the permanent members of a VC. The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Why do VC’s care about these years? Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capital.

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MARCH 6, 2014

Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. million in venture capital into one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Among the executives involved in the new startup are Jake Winebaum (eCompanies/Business.com/Jamdat/Boingo); Doug Hirsch (Facebook/Yahoo Entertainment/DailyStrength.org); Brian Barnum (RHD Interactive/Business.com/Rent.com); Elizabeth Hurchalla (BalckboardEats/Yahoo Food); Julie Taylor (Momlogic); and Terry McGovern (Los Angeles Times/AT&T).

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Tecca was originally spun out as a project of Fuse Capital, the venture capital investment firm formerly headed by Ross Levinsohn, before he was hired away to run Yahoo's Americas business; Tecca is now co-led by Assaf Tarnopolsky (Sony Pictures/MobiTV) and Shannon Ludovissy (Fox Interactive Media/Movielink/Fandango/NBC).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

CapLinked said the new address feature makes sharing deals on the service easier, and also allows users to import contacts from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail. Tags: caplinked saas software investor venture capital financial. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! Almost certainly the startup would have raised some capital. You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! Does Yahoo! Acquihires and Venture Capital. I’m a VC. But that’s not how you make money in the venture capital business.

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MARCH 11, 2014

I have the utmost respect for the tech produced by our northern colleagues and acknowledge it is the tech capital of the world and that won’t change. The point is … people have perceptions of Los Angeles formed by the history of this town and the fact that we are the capital of content and sun. FullScreen.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , the venture capital firm of GeoCities founder David Bohnett , has invested in gay social networking site Fabulis. Baroda Ventures Partner Peter Lee confirmed the investment in the New York company, which was worth $250,000. billion to Yahoo.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Product Manager at Yahoo! Tags: snowball factory awesm tweetpost twitter facebook venture capital software saas. Snowball Factory is headed by Jonathan Strauss, who according to his profile on LinkedIn was most recently a Sr.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&# Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some advice on how to do that was covered in this link – Getting Access to a VC. If you haven’t read how to build VC relationships and demonstrate traction make sure to read it.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based Vicente Capital Partners said Wednesday that the investment fund has raised $150M for the firm's Growth Equity Fund. The firm said its new fund will invest between $5M and $15M in equity in expansion capital or buyout deals, to companies who have $2M to $25M in revenues and up to $5M in EBITDA.

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MARCH 19, 2021

Among its advisors is George Tenet, former Director of the CIA, who the company said will serve as Senior Advisor to Red Cell; Jerry Yang, the founder and former CEO of Yahoo also is among its investors and advisors.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

New CEO Laughlin was previously at Amazon, heading up connected hardware and software experiences for Amazon Echo and Alexa, and also previously served at The Walt Disney Company and Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Hello Music said that the firm will help musicians by linking them to distribution through such firms as AudioMicro, Getty Images, GigMaven, LyricFind, MediaNet, Next Big Sound, Slacker, Topspin, TuneCore and Yahoo! Tags: hello music distribution musician private equity venture capital funding. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

This is one of the best episodes of This Week in VC for a long time. And they invest n select VC funds. 3:00 You were running corporate development for Yahoo before this? I had the chance to speak with Andrew Siegel who runs corp dev & strategy for Condé Nast (aka Advance Publications). That they own Reddit?

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APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Deal evaluations the Foundry way, which continues into a great discussion about VC decision-making processes. “So Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting. Protocol Digital Life.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Evolution also partners with venture capital funds and directly invests in select startup companies, combining capital with unique insight and support, leading to deep, sustainable development across all dimensions of businessindividuals, teams, and the organization as a whole. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Schneider was most recently CEO of LifeLock, and had led LifeLock through its sale to Symantec last year; she also previously served at Yahoo! Wag--founded in 2015 by Joshua and Jonathan Viner--says its services are now available in more than 100 cities nationwide. and Knight Ridder. READ MORE>>.

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