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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. For some reason that I haven’t yet figured out, Limited Partners seems to be pretty confidential about which firms they’ve invest in. Foundations.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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Three Factors Which Intoxicate Venture Capitalists - Why Your Startup Will (Probably) Not Raise Venture Capital Funding

InfoChachkie

Other than shortening the investor’s quarterly commute to your Board meetings, the net benefits of relocating for many startups are illusory, as I describe HERE. I guess no one told him about the medical startups that were purchased by Medtronic, Linvatec, Storz, Mentor, etc.,

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. Find A Concept You Are Passionate About. Mark framed his comments around the major mistakes he made during his early ventures.

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Do your kids Google Poo?

Eric Greenspan

After hearing some scary stories about kids getting themselves in trouble by posting inappropriate photos and other content on Facebook and sending threatening messages from instant messaging and SMS, I realized I need to get involved. Products like Net Nanny and SpectorPro can block or monitor your children’s access to the Internet.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

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've heard quite a bit about your mentoring efforts here, can you talk about that?

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

InfoChachkie

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. Anything that you are passionate about and are willing to expend energy to motivate others to support, qualifies as a cause. The time spent reading Enchantment will net a significant return.