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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Twenty-two years later, the tech presence here has not only grown, but the city is now home to dozens of accelerators and incubators for startups. Prior to starting Crosscut, Brett was a serial entrepreneur who built, operated, and sold a number of internet media companies including Myspace.com. in 2005 for $680M.

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

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Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. It it just more time that they save?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market.