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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

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Entrepreneurs typically embrace celebrity investments, while most sophisticated investors prefer to avoid famous entertainment or sports personalities on the cap table. Celebrity investors aside, I am a fan of high net worth individuals who are willing to allocate some of their risk capital to foster a startup''s success.

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Oncam Raises $7M For Group Video Calling App For Celebrities

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The funding was led by Tonn Investments, and also included un-named high net worth individuals and firms. Los Angeles-based Oncam , a new startup developing group video calling apps, has raised $7M in a funding round, according to the company.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and Who Will Win.

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Tarzan To The Beatles: 4 Of The All-Time Greatest Business Deals

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At the time, few people in Hollywood thought the Beatles would be remembered in three years, let alone in a decade and half. Box Office Mojo estimates that since 1980, the films have netted over $10 million in theatrical re-releases and at least that much in collective VHS, DVD and Blu-ray sales. This option cost Mr. Shenson nothing.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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David Aronchick: When we first got started, although we had a number of connection through Fouad, I worked with my network in Los Angeles, and my network in Seattle, and we landed an angel investment split between both those Los Angeles and Seattle investors. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. That has allowed more creative people to get into video, without having to make such a huge investment it. That's really our business plan.