Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. But the venture guys don’t make the calls on what the product / business guys do.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. Still, I have some concerns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise. If you need venture capital, maybe you need to spend more time in Silicon Valley or Boston. Fortunately, you can develop this skill.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2013

Divshot , one of the startups out of Los Angeles startup accelerator Launchpad LA , said today that it has raised $1.1M The new funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners, and also included 500 Startups, Daher Capital, Floodlight Ventures, Cooley LLP, Drummond Road Capital, and Eric Hammond. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s not that often in a VC career you get to work with teams you’re sure will be featured in documentaries about how major industries changed,” wrote Matt Ocko of Data Collective Venture Capital , which joined DFJ in Nervana’s initial venture funding. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. Both companies were in Los Angeles. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. Not bad, hey? I agree with him.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles. I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Network Up.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. At some point, something more compelling and interesting came up, and I left and went back to Nokia as an EIR in their venture capital fund, focused on mixed and virtual reality and IoT.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If so, Los Angeles-based Overnight (www.joinovernight.com) is for you. It's quite a different framework from an Airbnb or HomeAway. I was just starting out in mobile app development, and a friend of mine was just starting out as a VC at Greycroft. Asher Hunt: We are coming out of beta in Los Angeles right now.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

the rising tech movement sweeping through the burgeoning Los Angeles startup scene ­— he wants to put L.A. A vision of the future of the Los Angeles tech community he hopes will rival ­­— if not surpass Silicon Valley in 10 years as a the leader of groundbreaking innovation. The framework in L.A. Creating L.A.’s On the Develop.la

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As I have pointed out in previous posts , 91% of VCs surveyed believe prices are declining (30% believe substantially) and 77% believe that funding will take longer than it has in the past. The earlier the round, the less capital you need and the more reasonable your valuation the less time that is needed generally to raise capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. I love that. And it’s kind of true.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

Why aren't venture capitalists interested in sports? Derrick Oien: I have a couple of quotes from VCs, and my favorite one is that, for venture capital, sports is a $0 billion dollar industry. However, if you look in Los Angeles, in New York, or anywhere in the South, there's a very visceral appeal to sports.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

Why aren't venture capitalists interested in sports? Derrick Oien: I have a couple of quotes from VCs, and my favorite one is that, for venture capital, sports is a $0 billion dollar industry. However, if you look in Los Angeles, in New York, or anywhere in the South, there's a very visceral appeal to sports.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

The formation of SeedInvest was deeply rooted in Ryan’s background in venture capital and investment. With such notable pedigrees in the investment world, I had to wonder why Ryan and co-founder James didn’t “simply” raise money and create their own private equity/venture capital fund? 116,105,000.

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