Remove 2005 Remove 2011 Remove Entertainment Remove Metrics
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Interview with Cody Simms, Techstars LA

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Cody Simms: Obviously, I live here in LA, and I have been since 2005. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. Sometimes entrepreneurs ask if we need certain metrics and traction�you don't. I have witnessed first hand the amazing growth of the LA startup ecosystem.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.