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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. Today, we share the thoughts of Brett Brewer , co-foudner and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc). in 2005 for $680M.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist.

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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

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Three decades later, it has matured into a multi-hundred million dollar product category. According to Wardog, “We registered the domain www.standuppaddlesurfing.com on October 21, 2005, before the sport was even referred to as ‘standup paddle surfing.’” During the early 1990’s, Doug came across his second huge hit.

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

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”. 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. Comment help. Categories Deals. Get Tickets.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. We want to help them, and will. Thank you @eminutes. . Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. His second venture was Tesla Motors, creating the first production electric car of the modern era.