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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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It’s really hard to zig when the whole world seems to be zagging. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. It was an investment management class.

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The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part II

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which programs are--and aren't--worth looking at has become very difficult, if not impossible, for startup entrepreneurs. In contrast with our earlier list of accelerators , these typically do not have set schedules, defined programs, and investment amounts. However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out.

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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. At Archer we are focused on working with southern California's best entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to build disruptive new businesses.

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Israeli Tech Firms Eye Southern California

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Wagner and Rice are two of the people with links to Israel attending Thursday's conference , which features such notables as entrepreneur and investor Yossi Vardi, venture capitalist Erel Margali of Jerusalem Venture Partners, and others. Tags: israel israeli conference technology high tech investment.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. Entrepreneurs in LA spend a lot of time commuting up to the Valley. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2