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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

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 Two: “Deal of the Week”.

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Pitching Venture Capitalists

SoCal Tech Calendar

It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation revealing the best ways to meet, court, and pitch venture capitalists on your business ideas. We are joined this month by Nate Redmond, a Partner at Rustic Canyon Venture Capital, and Docstoc Board member. See [link] (more).

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Thanks to socalTECH's sponsors!

socalTECH

Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. Funding great entrepreneurs. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's. technology industry possible: Sponsors. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com).

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The Venture Capital Industry: The Current State of Affairs

Jason Nazar

Erick Schonfeld writes about the current state of affairs in his TechCrunch post: “ The End of Venture Capital as We Know It &#. There is a fantastic community post on The Funded that provides an impressively helpful overview of how Venture Capital the relationship limited parters: “ The Limited Partner Shuffle &#.

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Insights and Opinions: Top 10 Board Meetings Do's And Don'ts For CEOs

socalTECH

This morning's Insights & Opinions piece comes from Jim Armstrong , Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. Jim is very active helping Southern California's aspiring entrepreneurs, and has been instrumental in helping to promote the technology industry here. On key metrics, send (continued).

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

socalTECH

A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).