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Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures, On Mental Health And Investing In Founders

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The logic behind this, is that 80 percent of our bets are founder bets, and we believe we need to use every resource we can to help entrepreneurs be successful in hitting milestones. What drove your decision to focus on mental health and this aspect for entrepreneurs? It's a comprehensive bucket.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Dedicated to our Clients. Need office or Tech Space?

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors

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Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. inspired with entrepreneur Aaron Ross at our next meeting, on July 28th in.

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Will People Ever Be Comfortable Sharing Data Online?

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As an advisor to entrepreneurs and a technologist, I’m happy to report that the tide may be turning, and we are experiencing a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a new appreciation of the power of the digital world. In his new book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Norton, Ph.D., Is your business ready to ride the wave?

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x million loss in 2008.

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What is the Right Amount of Money to Raise at a Startup?

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I’ve seen too many entrepreneurs try to do things on the cheap. But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - Google suddenly makes your product category free). -

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