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Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Traditional venture capitalists will focus on leading larger rounds of equity in fewer companies. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? Rob Freelen: Focus.

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How Kixer Is Connecting Mobile Web Users To Apps

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Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. What is Kixer? What''s your background?

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

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The truth is that the brutal reality of public markets is that they self correct much more quickly than our shitty little private equity illiquid corner of the universe. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. One, is how to create a more scalable and efficient platform. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags

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It made me so mad that I would dedicate 2 hours of my Sunday to publicizing it and use this platform to talk about it. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. I hope you’re OK with that. At a minimum maybe it could prompt you to check in on your relatives that might easily fall prey to deceptive practices.

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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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. We hope that the platform will allow entrepreneurs a streamlined transition to an accelerator program, financing or to otherwise launch their businesses.”.

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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. The firm is backed by a notable list of angel investors, and based in Los Angeles.

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