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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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San Diego Tech Roundup: Startup Week, Planck, TuSimple & More

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On the eve of the start of the seventh annual San Diego Startup Week, let’s learn more about the event—which is expected to draw thousands to its talks and gatherings—and take a look at some other recent tech news. Startup Week is produced by Startup San Diego, a nonprofit organization started.

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San Diego Tech Roundup: Bitmo, Dvele, Cybersecurity Report & More

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—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices.

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Trust & Will Raises $2M to Advance Digitization of Estate Planning

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The team at Trust & Will, a San Diego-based startup founded in October of 2017, is betting that a good chunk of those people would shell out some money to outline an estate plan if the process were cheaper and easier. million in seed—in 2018 to advance its growing suite of products, digitized.

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Five Questions With a16z’s Vijay Pande on AI and Making New Drugs

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Another startup looking to take advantage of those improvements, South San Francisco-based Genesis Therapeutics, has scored $4.1 million in seed funding and publicly joined the growing fray of biotechs with grand ambitions of disrupting the slow, costly process of discovering and developing new medicines.

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VC Funding Surges in Fewer Deals in Third Quarter, and Top 10 Deals

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Venture firms invested $21.5 billion in 1,699 startups nationwide during the quarter, maintaining a pace that could reach a decade high by the end of 2017 in terms of overall funding. The quarterly Venture Monitor report is set for release today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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Case’s $150M Rise of the Rest Fund Aims to Boost Flyover Startups

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Contributing to the fund is an impressive group of some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country. Called the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , it will be overseen by Case and Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, who joined Case’s VC firm, Revolution, earlier this year.