socalTECH
OCTOBER 9, 2019
There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). Aaron Fyke: I believe we're in a second wave of clean tech investing. Talk about the new firm and the new fund?
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Just ask the people who poured money into once “hot&# companies like RazorGator or Friendster. And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare? In fact, sometimes seeing social proof (e.g.
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socalTECH
JULY 5, 2017
It's fairly unusual to see an apparel company with venture backing, and particularly unusual to see one with the strong lineup of investors that LA-based Jaanuu (www.jaanuu.com) has behind the company. In the early 2000's, I'd worked as a consumer, retail investment banker. companies around the LA area.
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JANUARY 18, 2011
What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I’m also on record as saying I invest in lines & not dots.
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DECEMBER 5, 2010
What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 2.0.
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APRIL 13, 2011
My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. “My This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0
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OCTOBER 1, 2009
There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g.
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