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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. For California investments in general, the funding has kicked up pretty remarkaably. If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. The problem is diseconomy of scale. Now we have it.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. We went out on a limb in a competitive category with Wheels, and we did it because we believed in the founders. in 2005 for $680M.

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Interview with Richard Sussman, NordicEye

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We talked with Richard about NordicEye's $30M fund, its interests in Los Angeles, and why a Nordic venture capital firm has its eyes on Southern California's technology startups. The fund has been about two years of development with Peter Warnoe, who is a serial entrepreneur who is very famous in the Nordics.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I first met Ethan in 2005. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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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'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. Kanaan Jemili: I have been in Southern California for more than 18 years. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Marketplace companies are notoriously difficult to start, so I'm constantly amazed that so many entrepreneurs chose this route. You Can’t Sign This Deal. It says what?!”).

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