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Clearstone's Sumant Mandal On Exits, Opportunities

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Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. We started these companies, at least the three companies I was involved in. Sumant Mandal: First of all, you know our heritage is as an incubator. It's part of the job.

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If the Venture Model is Broken, Who??s Funding All These Startups?

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Thursday, December 9, 2010 -- If the Venture Model is Broken, Whos Funding All These Startups? What is the new business of investing  startups are getting funded at rapid speeds, if venture is broken, whos doing the investing? Dealmaker Media LA.

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Geodelic Ships Application With T-Mobile

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in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. The firm was founded in 2008, and according to regulatory filings that funding came in January. The company was incubated by Clearstone Ventures, which has been actively pulling together management teams and funding new startups in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. You're funded, correct? How did the incubation part come about? READ MORE>>.

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TechZulu Recaps: The Annual Startup Forecast

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The Annual TechZulu Startup Forecast is one of our most anticipated events. Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund. Get yourself up to speed by reading through JATI, Inc.’s Let’s Talk Bitcoin.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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In fact, he’s personally started 34 businesses and run 17 of them. He started a car washing business as a way to be able to drive other people’s fancy cars. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas.

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