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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

socalTECH

The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. Let's start with an overview of the fund. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago. How tough was it to start up a new fund? What do you invest in?

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Open Door Session For Entrepreneurs

Tech Zulu Event

If you are an entrepreneur and you live in Southern California and you want FREE help and feedback for your start-up, then you definitely need to plan for this. RSVP here and if you want setup a time for your start-up email dkong[at]fenwick[dot]com.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

But I thought I’d take some more time here to expand on what I think are the challenges, and opportunities, of starting a tech company in LA. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists. Opportunity #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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More Great News for #LATech – Crosscut Ventures Raises $75 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Like many entrepreneurs, the founders of Crosscut quit their well-paid jobs in the belief that LA’s moment was about to arrive and they spent years on low (sometimes no) salaries to prove it. LA has grown up a lot over the past 5 years. But that was so 2008.

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