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Southern California Sees Boom In Venture Investments In Q4

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Think there is a technology investment slowdown? That's definitely not the case in Southern California, which saw a massive, $1.3 billion invested in venture capital in Q4 of 2015, according to the latest numbers released over the weekend by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

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What I Learned In 2014: David Cremin, DFJ Frontier

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Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve been featuring the reflections on the last year from folks in Southern California''s technology industry. Here, David Cremin , a venture capitalist at DFJ Frontier , shares his thoughts on 2014. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? It might accidentally go in the goal!

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What I Learned in 2014: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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We''ve been featuring a few reflections on the last year from a number of movers and shakers in Southern California''s technology industry over the last couple of weeks, during the holidays. Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. maybe even 10x.

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Howard Marks: What I Learned In 2014

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It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college. These more basic needs can be solved with seemingly simple technologies—software for billing, scheduling, navigation and many other business workflows.

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Reflections on 2016: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Jeb Spencer: We closed our nineteenth and twentieth software focused growth equity investments this year, a significant milestone for our firm. There is just no way around it.

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Howard Marks: What I Learned This Year

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It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing.