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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. This morning, we're sharing the insights of Greg Martin , a venture capitalist at Archer Venture Capital. 2010 was a momentus year for me personally. Stay tuned.

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What Mattered In 2010: David Cremin, DFJ Frontier

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Last week, we announced our end-of-the-year project, which was to collect and share the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Our first answers come from David Cremin , Managing Director of venture capital firm DFJ Frontier (www.dfjfrontier.com). READ MORE>>.

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital. 2010 was very good to us. A number of companies in the portfolio delivered very strong operating results in 2010, which is exciting.

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Insights and Opinions: Exit Strategies in 2010

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For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have a piece from Megan Jones , an investment banker from Hadley Partners Incorporated: As I often say, I grew up in and out of Silicon Valley with a dad in high-tech. So, early on I knew what venture capital is (along with "chips", "boxes", "burn rate" and other valley lingo).

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What Mattered in 2010: Bruce Hallett, Miramar Venture Partners

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? See more insights from the Southern California high tech community in our continued series tomorrow!

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What Mattered In 2010: Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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For the next couple of weeks, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? Yesterday, we heard from Scott Painter of TrueCar. The obvious one is the iPad.

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What Mattered in 2010: John Babcock, Rustic Canyon Partners

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech communityk. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? We last talked with Michael Jones, CEO of MySpace. It's a revelation. People said "I don't need one.