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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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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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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. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Be gracious.

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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. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Be gracious.

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Angel Funding Advice

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This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. They might be as hard as raising VC. But for most businesses it is.

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Embrace Losing

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We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)? we would support 6.0

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff. I’ll explain in detail below. What does it do?

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