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San Diego Fundingpost VC and Angel Investor Conference

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 -- San Diego Fundingpost VC and Angel Investor Conference. At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! Interested in pitching?

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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But of course all of these things are intertwined. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We chose the word “upfront” to represent our culture.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.

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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. We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. So, we're pretty connected with the community.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. And of course you have Hollywood.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Xconomy

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. And at the other end is where you’ll typically see our larger investments and acquisitions,” Kashyap writes. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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