socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners is the lead investor in a Northern California firm focused on the blogging and publishing industry, Apture. David Stern and Sumant Mandal of Clearstone have joined Apture's board along with the funding.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we thought we'd share a recent article penned by Clearstone Ventures' William Quigley. Bills name is well known within the investment, start-up and tech communities, especially of late with the recent launch of his Chime.In Continued.). READ MORE>>.

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Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on their capital calls, we’ll all quickly find the venture community becoming drastically constrained. So what does this mean for internet entrepreneurs?

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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