corporate-venturing 
socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. However, innovation-driven corporations often have the urgency to act (or risk losing market share, relevance, etc) and resources to deploy.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 29, 2014
Maybe they’ve hit a few set backs: They’ve struggled to raise money, they haven’t gotten press coverage or they haven’t gotten accepted to present at prestigious conferences. Seriously, hang up your cleats now and go back to your corporate job. But how do you get past gate keepers? Nothing beats a warm intro.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2014
In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. I do it myself.
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JULY 21, 2014
Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market.
InfoChachkie
JUNE 9, 2016
A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Like the tribe, a nascent venture’s survival is precarious and never guaranteed. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Under communicate - do not like to confer with or answer to the group. million years.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 18, 2015
There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.
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