Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. He knows every startup & VC in town.” This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market.

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. The prefab building area has seen some recent venture capital interest, most recently with Blu Homes in Boston, which just scored some new venture capital.

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Santa Monica Venture Capital Anthem Design 190

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Series A round.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. Like many companies they experimented with many pricing models. Why did you raise VC from Polaris & how have they been to work with? It changed everything.

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Startup Venture Capital Pricing Writing 303

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

And, even more impressively, it's now seeing more than $100M in annual revenues--without ever having taken any institutional or venture capital. We spoke with CEO Bryan Cheung to learn more about LifeRay, and how it grew from a church basement and open source to $100M+ in revenues, without ever taking outside capital.

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Diamond Bar Custom Customer Organization 169

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Can you talk about your experience? Let's talk a bit about your background.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. In general, Southern California is less capiatlized from the venture perspective versus the opportunities here--there's lots of good stuff going on. where do you see the VC industry here now?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. A lot of this comes out of my co-founder's experience, Tony Karrer, and his experience as a blogger. What is Aggregage?

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Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to founding MuckerLab, Erik was most recently at Harrison Metal Capital where he helped lead one of the most successful seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. United Kingdom, and France, and has over 30 years of experience as a veteran of the technology industry.

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Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

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's your thoughts on the local venture market? An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size. No, thanks. We did the planning work up front.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

We had a chance to speak with Jerry Fitch , CEO of the firm, about the interest in the electric/smart metering market, his views on where the market is today, as well as a bit about the experience of operating as a private equity backed firm. Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

We are always looking for ways to help improve the experience here at TechZulu. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. TechStars and YCombinator really have pioneered the model. So, it's still a relatively recent phenomenon.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

million deal with NASA to use Virgin Galactic spacecraft to conduct experiments, filling the void left by the retirement of America’s shuttle program. He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. Virgin executives describe the company as a “branded venture capital company.”

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." While this is not slated to change anytime soon, one possible way to bridge this gap is through federal venture capital.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Named a Woman Making A Difference by the Los Angeles Business Journal, Lisa Nicole Bell brings more than 10 years of experience to her role as the CEO of Inspired Life Media Group. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Shivani Siroya – CEO and Founder of InVenture.

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