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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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And there’s none that makes me happier than to announce that Jordan Hudson has been promoted to a Principal at Upfront Ventures. What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. Industry reviews. VC firm admin.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Organic Academia. Techpreneurs.

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Philz Coffee Looks Beyond California With $45M Funding

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The company's first expansion beyond the Bay Area was in Santa Monica in 2014, due to the concentration of high tech startups in the area. Philz Coffee is about to open its first location in Glendale this week, just opened a location in Huntington Beach , and opened a location in Hollywood in June. READ MORE>>.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Reviewing financial & operational performance. In the Early Days.

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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

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And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. Help us review a few deals. The choice of how much VC work and how much start-your-company work you want to do is up to you.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). I'm a bit of an anti-VC, as you know. As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company.