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Southern California Venture Totals Drop in Q4

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PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 Media & Entertainment also saw an increase, up 3 percent to $2.0 Media & Entertainment also saw an increase, up 3 percent to $2.0 billion in 818 deals, down from $7.3

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Armstrong, Clearstone Ventures

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We've been sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community all week, and will also do so next week. For today's contribution, we spoke with Jim Armstrong , a venture capitalist at Clearstone Venture Partners. Yesterday, we spoke with Mark Suster of GRP Partners.

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Thanks To Our Sponsors

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Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com). Venture Capital for Technology Innovators. They include: Sponsors. Technology.

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Interview with Phil Ressler, BigStage Entertainment

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The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. However, I've only spent 5 and a half years of the last thirty in venture capital.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. Mr. Csathy’s career spans Internet, music, motion pictures/video, live entertainment, and technology.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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