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Thinking Like a VC

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 -- Thinking Like a VC. Featuring: Rob Vickery, Partner and Co-Founder: Stage Venture Partners. Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship.

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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. However, they seldom acknowledge their mistakes.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). I'm a bit of an anti-VC, as you know. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney.

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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Southern California venture totals for Q3 totaled around $1.0 billion in investments, according to the Q3 analysis of venture capital deals by socalTECH.com. in investments, followed by Retail Products, at $140M, and Software, at $77.8M. billion invested in Q2.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

On Losing in VC. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

On Losing in VC. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software.