socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. What is a VC fund?

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund? It's all about the entrepreneur.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Thursday, October 23, 2008 -- Funding Clean Tech Venture. Panel providing the latest information about where Cleantech investors are making investments and the relative state of the market compared with recent periods. Market conditions have changed since the heyday of the first half of 2007 but funding in this sector continues.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tell us about this new program? You may have heard a couple of firms in the Bay Area talking about the importance of founder well being, mental health, and stress management, but from our perspective, this also includes coaching and leadership development. Any lessons you have learned now that you're now on your fourth fund?

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2015

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based CrossCut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) announced its third, venture capital fund--a continuation of an investment theme very much centered around the growth of Southern California, and in particular, the Silicon Beach startup ecosystem. Tell us about your new fund?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Thursday, October 30, 2008 -- "Funding Growth in an Uncertain Market" Technology Council of Southern California. What can you do to be better prepared to get funding? What about after the funding? Financing Options available to Southern California Technology Companies have changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. Mark, why wouldn’t you fund him? I wrote about that decision here. Startup DNA.

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JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. I’m not a doomsday guy, but just believe that we won’t see a V shaped recovery, which could make VC funding more difficult for tech start-ups (don’t shoot the messenger!).

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

We caught up with Randy Saaf , the CEO of Lucid Sight, to learn more about how exactly the company is doing that, and why. Lucid Sight recently announced a $6M funding round from such investors as the ML, Salem Partners, The Galaxy EOS VC Fund, Digital Currency Group, Breakaway Growth, Frontier Venture Capital, and Animoca Brands.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel. So I think it’s now fair to rate me at 9/10 on follow-on fundings. 5 years ago.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

During the process of arranging early funding for Organovo in 2008-2010, I worked with angels in San Diego, all over the country, and around the world. About 40 percent of my financing at. The change has caused me to reflect a bit on the state of finance in biotech and in San Diego biotech particularly.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an article from Mark Suster of GRP Ventures , who talks about the great "VC Ice Age" triggered in September of 2008, and how it's started to thaw (a little bit). Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Nobody should celebrate, cheer or shout, “it’s about time.” ” This is about 336 people whose lives are altered and need to begin looking for work, saying goodbye to friends & colleagues and go on that journey of transition that most people dread. I put up this slide as part of my discussion. Does this suck?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

He said, “They need an unbiased view of the fund raising environment because there is too much misinformation and everything seems to be changing fast.&#. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

Lots of discussion these days about the changes in the VC industry. The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. We were certain the funding would come through.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

It’s also hard to know (unless you’re a professional trader at a large fund with tons of research and colleagues who have more market knowledge than the average retail investor) whether the market is off of a fair value by 10% or whether it was already 20% overvalued and this is an inevitable correction. Neither do I.

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MAY 4, 2010

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. Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

And it happened again in early 2008, as CEOs reported the first evidence of order slowdowns and issues with customer payments – right before the ‘great recession.’. Just recently, one of our own had raised over twenty million dollars to grow his company and wanted advice about filling out his senior ranks to best accelerate growth.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Thus, while we maintain a healthy degree of optimism, we begin each funding discussion knowing that most nascent startups are not worthy of an investment, until we prove them otherwise. <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.>

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Adeo Co-Founded the entrepreneur-friendly website The Funded and he is the Founder and CEO of The Founder Institute , whose goal is to create and foster local startup ecosystems across the globe. I began by asking Adeo about the inspiration for The Funded. The Funded was created ''07. Taming The Prison Guards.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Startup tech businesses used to land on the scene with big ideas about how their tech could change the world. Facebook, for example, decided in 2008 that its mission was to “help you connect and share with the people in your life.” What About the Money? ” However, with every setback comes an opportunity. “Our

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. I ran that company for about four years, then started my own company focused on Internet tax. I decided to get back to startups in August of 2008. How are you funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. I’ll give Sam Altman the last quote from the article , YCombinator also warns young entrepreneurs about taking on too much, too fast. “We I know because I have been the beneficiary of their advice for years and have appreciated it.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

What do you get when you combine 7 panelist plus one moderator on to a stage for 30 minutes to talk about a serious topic? There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. If given a chance here’s what I would have talked about: 1. Answer: Not much. It’s a shame.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I remember it even way back in kindergarden when my Saturday school teacher tried to tell me about Noah and Adam & Eve. And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on.

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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. What was appealing about what you were doing for your investors?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

I had been looking around at several deals in late 2008 as the markets were tanking. But my other VC partner had a smaller fund and raising price would have a big impact on his ability to finance the company. But part of the reason the other VC called about the deal is that he heard we were doing it in the first place.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

The common denominator in both companies is Howard Lindzon, the Wall Street trader and hedge fund manager who founded StockTwits in San Diego in 2008. Wall Street investors, traders, financial media, and others use StockTwits to share insights and banter about investment picks. Ian Rosen, a former MarketWatch general manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. About a year ago I had lunch with a guy who I believe is an amazing entrepreneur. What about VC’s and Risk? He wanted to raise angel money.

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