Blogging Santa Monica Venture Capital Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 18, 2010
I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. The next users after that is reading a blog post that I wrote nearly 9 months ago.
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socalTECH
JUNE 27, 2013
Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
She hasn’t raised any venture capital. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. That may soon change.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 23, 2015
Last week Fred Wilson and I sat down in Santa Monica for an hour+ discussion with the video cameras rolling. One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” ” Fred & I are both in agreement that there is a tension between capital constraints and creativity.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 10, 2009
Search for Jen Raymond and you’ll get 2 of them – neither one is the Jen Raymond who works for Pfizer and lives in Santa Monica. Third is Bryan Hale, a former colleague from Salesforce.com and former VC from DFJ. And write a short bio about yourself. You get my point – 7 results, none him. Anything.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. I hate Silicon Whatever.
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