socalTECH
JULY 12, 2013
CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first. What is pushing those CIOs to consider private clouds? There''s more engineering talent in Southern California than most places in the world.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). What's the theme of your investments? That's why we have investments in Heal, Saucey, and FragMob.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. The community has matured – The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. I meet with Bay Area entrepreneurs all the time and am actively looking to make investments there.
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 20, 2010
As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.
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