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Kevin O'Connor, ScOp Venture Capital, On Startup Success and Investments

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Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. If we took in other people, we'd have to go after more deals, and bigger deals, and there's plenty of competition in that part of the market. I was blown away.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We just did a deal with Rincon Ventures on a deal in Santa Barbara, and we're partnering with other firms on deals, and we'd like to see more. That's what I'm hoping to do.

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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. Most importantly, it just doesn't feel right to us to hold positions in competitive companies. billion).