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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. But we believe it is equally compelling to help existing businesses better compete with their online brethren. I wrote about him here. Take for example retailers.

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APRIL 14, 2010

I know that the tone of the title and post will seem a bit aggressive for a post from a venture capitalist on fund raising. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. Dealing with an artificially high price can make fund raising hard. Clean up your own shite.

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JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company. A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True). We then moved on to discuss the following deals: Deal of the Week.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. Of their 36 deals you can bet that they had at least 22 “issues” on their hands.

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JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many deals to look at, too many seed funds or angels asking you to look at deals and weekly “demo days” with manicured and monocultural presentations crafted by experienced story tellers to help even the mundane idea sound like it will. For investors life is no different.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. The second reason is that we are a hybrid fund with a unique strategy.

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MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. The second is not.

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Montgomery & Co Projects Deal Volume to Grow by 167% in Just 2 Years with No End to Growth in Sight. We meet to discuss trends in the industry and to find ways to work together to help with SoCal deal syndication – somethings that happens automatically on Sand Hill Road in NorCal due to proximity.

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JUNE 28, 2010

I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. If you watch this I think you’ll agree with me that you can’t help but really like this guy. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

The venture backed startup--which has scored funding from the Tech Coast Angels and VantagePoint Venture Partners--appears to have significant overlap to Google's new Google Voice services. Quilici also noted that the firm is "very hard to displace" due to lengthy deals the firm has with carriers. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

Note: I am indirectly a micro-investor in Big Frame through Rincon Venture Partners sponsorship of Launchpad LA. What I really liked was serving people, I really liked helping people, and in my little seven-year-old mind, that meant being a waitress. In 2007, Sarah joined Current TV. helps you get up in the morning and know.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. The “what” is well known in LA circles – Troy discovered a little known young singer named Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga and helped her launch her career. Same with Gaga.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy. What is Sidebar all about?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Both boards have approved the deal, which has to be sanctioned by a majority of Signal shareholders before it closes (owners of about 26 percent of Signal’s stock have already supported the merger). That’ll leave the combined company with over $50 million in cash at the deal’s closing.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

If you’re reading this you’ll now likely know that I became a VC in 2007 with what is now called Upfront Ventures. Both have done an amazing job of defining themselves in venture in a short period of time. Many years later I sat down with Jason again as he was contemplating getting into venture.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. In 2007, we started to put some policy attached to the money, and created a jobs investment fund. Right now, there's Lottay and Geodelic in the incubator, Jeff Greene?,

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. That was back in 2007, when we started.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. Being in that atmosphere of a value-based approach helped shape our thinking on technology investing. We believed that in the pure venture market, it's hard to compete.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. Babak Razi - Founder Third Wave Ventures. On Demand).

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JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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MARCH 1, 2010

It’s the view that I back great entrepreneurs and help them pursue their dreams no matter what. He was telling me about a deal he had done. My friend blocked the deal. I had an offer to sell my company to Salesforce.com in 2007. I had initially called them wondering if they’d fund my third venture.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. I had found my industry and a deal I really liked in it.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. I do 2-3 deals per year and our firm does maybe 10-15 maximum. I better roll up my sleeves and help my companies get funded.”

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? That as unhealthy.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. Ranker helps Internet users find the most appropriate answers to questions that benefit from the wisdom of crowds. I am also looking for some bus dev and marketing help.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The industry did that in 2007.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. That may be a great return for him/her but for a venture investor it’s not. Answer: Not much. And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. Consumer debt relative to incomes has risen to an all time high reaching 138% of 2007 (obviously that’s not sustainable!)

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers. No matter how much they love and support you, they’ll only deal with you mooching off them for a short period of time. Our platform helps them do that. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ).

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

One way to grab some cash and learn valuable entrepreneurial skills along the way is to launch mini-ventures or Venturettes. Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. Three examples of mini-ventures carried out by me and my fellow Wharton classmates are described below.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. upStart.LA is a startup accelerator based in Los Angeles that helps tech entrepreneurs get their business up and going. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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