Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. But we have a great city for building technology companies.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check.
socalTECH
JULY 28, 2017
Even with prominent breaches at Yahoo, LinkedIn, and others, how many consumers actually take the time to enable that second factor? The main institutional money in the company is a firm called Toba Ventures. Vinny Smith was the founder of Quest, and Toba Ventures is his venture capital firm. We are lazy.
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