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DECEMBER 21, 2017

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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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

TCVN, a nonprofit technology group, was founded in 1984 to educate and assist entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies in Orange County and to connect them with money, advice and other resources to help their businesses grow. Kevin McDonald is the new TCVN President, a position Foley held for the past year and Greenberg held before that.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Beth Seidenberg focuses on life science investing in digital health and biotech and works with entrepreneurs to develop companies with breakthrough technology for treating patients and improving the delivery of healthcare.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. He later earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus. What are some of your investments?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Fjord Ventures LLC was founded in mid-2005 and is committed to providing strategic vision and operational excellence to emerging life sciences companies. The focus of the Firm is to partner with entrepreneurs to maximize value creation. See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. 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. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping.

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JULY 13, 2009

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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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. He was the startup-to-profitability CFO at Fandango, and really is one of the most incredible, operational executives in all of So-Cal. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

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MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with two of Southern California's most successful serial entrepreneurs, Alex Kazerani and James Segil , now of Los Angeles-based OpenPath. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. We then started Edgecast in 2006.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005.

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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: I have been in Southern California for more than 18 years. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. We present them with many advantages as they go on our platform. Whats your background, and how did you get into this? I had built an audio company before. I have a Ph.D.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. So how did you end up in Los Angeles, and why did you move down here? John Nahm: The main reason, is we have a lot of entrepreneurial friends here in Southern California. Entrepreneurs here really enjoy helping each other.

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JUNE 9, 2010

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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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. I've actually gone to four startup, so far, taking them from prototype to production, when they are able to sell the company or have it run on its own.

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MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). before which is second-time entrepreneurs.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business. We were going through the traditional route of seeking venture capitalists both here in Southern California and flying to Sand Hill road. Since then, it's grown into a big study community.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients.

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JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly. We are hands on. We have a great screening process.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur. So your journey to fund raising begins by strengthening your relationships with other entrepreneurs.

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