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Clearstone's Sumant Mandal On Exits, Opportunities

socalTECH

Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. The founders ran them, with the founder's ideas, but we supported them and took them to customers. Sumant Mandal: First of all, you know our heritage is as an incubator.

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

socalTECH

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. How did the incubation part come about? What's the next big thing for you?

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. Get Angel capital and build a prototype. If you can’t keep up, you are dead. It took month and years.