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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

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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. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind. Mark Suster: It''s our best source of deal flow. READ MORE>>.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? And it changed the culture.

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

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To better understand how the accelerator world has matured beyond Demo Da, I sought out Jason Denenberg, former partner at Angel Capital Group, and current Director of Entrepreneurship at Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN).

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. The hard part is always the execution.

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