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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. And covered we did.

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

socalTECH

Southern California venture totals for Q3 totaled around $1.0 billion in investments, according to the Q3 analysis of venture capital deals by socalTECH.com. Other big deals included $60M in investment in San Diego's Skinit , a developer of personalized "skins" for electronic devices, and $37.0M

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. was starting. Distribution.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities. My brother is in charge of the development team, and is very focused on development and coding. Was it useful to you having been in venture capital to be able to get funding quickly?

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. Traffic.com sold 10-second in-content advertising spots to local TV broadcasters. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months. Another example.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Venture capital. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Backup Software. Blog Software.