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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.”

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3