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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m of the fund.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. We have a number of startups (or pre-startups) that we are helping get launched. You are writing about the essentials of business. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? That's great.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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Interview with Tara Weingarten, VroomGirls

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That's something which Los Angeles-based VroomGirls (www.vroomgirls.com) is looking to change--with the backing of sponsors like Toyota, Ferrari, and Lamborghini. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. It's simply that there are so many men doing it.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. When I was moving to Los Angeles from Paris, I was sorting through my stuff, and I made three bags of things. Where did the idea come from?

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. I regularly do wine tastings here in Los Angeles with some interesting folks I know. Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. Maybe this meme will help. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Interview with Clark Landry, Maple Media

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Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. We saw one today which helps you track how much of a certain thing a day you do is healthy for you.

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