socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Our 2019 investment in Backtracks, a developer of podcast analytics software, has shown fantastic traction and continues to provide value to podcast creators helping them to better understand their listeners and monetize their content. The biggest lesson learned this year has been how hot the LA tech ecosystem has become. Since 2010, $6.3B

Capital 100

Capital Technical Review Truecar Venture Capital 100

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 That will coincide with her developing her unique pipeline and starting to get a sense of her focus areas.

Venture Capital 408

Venture Capital Startup Outsource Development CitySearch 408

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JANUARY 16, 2012

He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. So they develop short-hand ways to qualify things better. Why invest now when I can see how your company develops? Neither can any VC.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

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APRIL 4, 2011

And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. one of the best in industry that I've seen is how Scott Painter measures his business at TrueCar.

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

You know Zag, herein town, and more recently our new car investment, TrueCar. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. Because, who it takes to develops successful software-as-a-service is someone who has come through Oracle, Seybold, to some extent SAP or PeopleSoft.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. You just don’t.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313