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BAM Ventures, Led By Brian Lee, Seeks $50M In Third Fund

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BAM Ventures , the venture capital investment firm founded by serial entrepreneur Brian Lee, is looking to raised $50M in a third venture capital fund, BAM Ventures III, L.P. Lee--best known for co-founding LegalZoom, as well as Shoedazzle--has been making investments from his own funds for a number of years.

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LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant

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The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., Bryant launched his venture career with partner and serial entrepreneur Jeff Stibel back in 2013, according to Crunchbase.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price.

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The Honest Company Raises $25M More

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Thew new funding came from Institutional Venture Partners, and also included Iconiq Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and General Catalyst Partners. Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in such companies as LegalZoom and ShoeDazzle. The Honest Company has now raised $58M in funding.

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H.Bloom, Backed By Brian Lee, Gets More Funding

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New York-based online subscription flower delivery service H.Bloom , whose backers include Los Angeles entrepreneur Brian Lee , who founded ShoeDazzle and LegalZoom, has scored another round of funding, the firm said Thursday.

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Early-stage investment firm Defy updates the venture partner model

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Here’s how the two describe it in a blog post about the new program: Venture partner, operating partner, entrepreneur in residence, advisor etc, so many names and so many different implementations, so we decided to simply give our unique relationship it’s own name- a Sage. .

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The Silent Killer – The Company Your Community Never Created

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I then got my MBA at University of Chicago so I secretly pull for local entrepreneurs as long as they don’t make me visit in the Winter any more. They started their company in LA but a couple of years after raising capital from Khosla Ventures in the Bay Area they ended up relocating there. Local capital matters.

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