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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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He built & IPOd Demand Media. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. I honestly believe I learned more by rising up the ranks and becoming the president of my fraternity than I did in the class room reading about supply & demand curves in economics. What I learned was how to work with teams.

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