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DECEMBER 23, 2019

We also had our first exit for Moonshots Capital Fund 1 --Threatcare. The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. For my partner, Craig Cummings, and I - 2019 was our first full year as Venture Capitalists! Think Google Ad Words for podcasting.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) held its annual awards event last night, honoring former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, as well as local, venture backed companies in a banquet last night at the Luxe hotel in Los Angeles. Other finalists were Clicker.com , Truecar , and Zumbox.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. But even this is changing.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. One of the core pieces of that technology was around marketing and customer acquisition. It worked so well, in fact, that venture capitalists actually came to visit us, looked at what we had, and wanted to invest because of that technology.

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