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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) They also avoid Reg D.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

socalTECH

We also sold one of our largest sites to a private equity firm in the real estate niche, and narrowed our focus down to FamousBirthdays.com. For example, if more people search for socaltech each month, and more users are liking your site, that''s an easy way for Google to see that a site has value. Our revenue is solid.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA.

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling, Convertro

socalTECH

Instead, after a private equity firm offered to buy YLighting, we negotiated to keep the technology that we had developed. We sold it to a private equity group. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. Jeff Zwelling. The other one was pretty good too.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

We caught on with the right product, at the right time. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time. You have to be able to be disruptive to existing products and services. There's complexity in being a CDN.

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Interview with Clark Landry, Maple Media

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. They're an elite private equity firm, and what's even better is I can literally walk from my house to their office.

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

socalTECH

Enterprises are under a lot of pressure to produce great product under fast cycles. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio. Each and everyone is creating their own equity scenario. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology.