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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy. But throughout the transition I had my safety net.

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

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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. ” In addition to sales, Mark advocates that emerging entrepreneurs gain some experience coding. Winning customers is sales.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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In 1996, they spun out from those entities and created GRP, taking our retailing experience, and seeing that retailing was moving online and invested in retail as it moved online. What is a net loss for us, is when Sequoia or Benchmark flies down on their corporate jet, meets with a company, and tells them to relocate to Northern California.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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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

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. The method some LPs use to compare funds is called PME (public market equivalent ) but honestly my experience has been that benchmarking is really challenging for LPs (and VCs alike).