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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. Whereas the first two funds I was involved in helping raise each took more than a year this fund was less than 6 months. Why do they invest in venture capital?

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. Of the 225 customer reviews currently posted on Amazon, over 90% are highly positive. I enjoyed the book as well, as evidenced by the review I wrote at the time of its release, which you can read HERE. It wasn’t the Guy fan base.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

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The short version of my review is: “Enchanting? I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. He then helps readers evaluate their results with some amusing “grades.” Positive ROI.

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

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Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. Obtaining funding is a key milestone, but equally important is helping fledgling companies build institutional mass once they leave the relatively safe confines of an accelerator. According to Jason, “Every experience is also a learning experience.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion). com> 4/25/08.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Interview with Eric Frankel, StarGreetz

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What's the technology behind this? We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now. Did those prior entertainment relationships help to get those celebrities to work with you? Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon.