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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. Tempus Fugit.

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DexCom Board Member Departs

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San Diego-based DexCom , a developer of continuous glucose monitoring systems, said Monday afternoon that Donald A. Lucas is Founding Managing Member at RWI Group, which was an investor in DexCom before the firm's IPO in 2005. Lucas has resigned from the firm's board of directors.

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MindTouch Picks Up $12M For Customer Self Service Software

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San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE.

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

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Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. was starting. Distribution.

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SoCal Venture Totals Slip, But IT Shines

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Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2

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Android Founder on VR, Voice & the Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

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Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Within 20 years, computer keyboards will be relegated to the technology dustbin, says Android co-founder Rich Miner. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices.

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