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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

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. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: > -jeff.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Why do VC’s care about these years? ’ Our Net Income will be $40 million.&#. 66% Net Operating Margins?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer). ”).

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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How Do you Motivate Yourself and Stay Focused?

Both Sides of the Table

You might net $1 million and that would change your life. Raise a big VC round – yeah! I had foregone my VC term sheets to accept an offer yet I knew it wasn’t 100% probability to close – it never is. VCs were interested. If you don’t you may have to lay off staff in eight weeks. Should you?

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