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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

When should a VC invest? Every single one of our professional decisions is about timing, and yet, we do so little to practice and perfect it. It’s the only way forward in capitalism, and it’s worth every investment you can make. South California is also seeing declining seed investment. Peter Kim via Getty Images.

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How Mobile Is Changing Oversee's Business, With Debra Domeyer

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Domeyer recently told us how mobile visitors to the web are dramatically changing how Oversee looks at the market, and are pushing the firm to invest more in technology to adapt to mobile users. We're very big in the Agile framework. What are the major business areas Oversee is focused on nowadays?

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

Both Sides of the Table

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. Not an investment philosophy “ I understand the sentiment of this post and it’s how I view AngelList (like email), but I feel like it loses a nuance about AngelList.

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Science37: Using Technology To Enable Remote, Clinical Trials, with Belinda Tan

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The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. What is Science37?

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Interview With Brian McCarthy, Dentistry.com

socalTECH

To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. That said, I'm a veteran technology guy here in SoCal. I read the book, and it was pretty profound to me, and really created a lot of the framework of how I needed to look at this business.

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Interview with Daryl Bernstein, RightSignature

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Daryl is also an angel investor, and has invested in such companies as MindBody Software and YouMail. and most other countries around the world which follow a general framework, making online agreements every bit as legally binding as paper ones. Explain to me how your service works? and the E.U., I was itching to get my hands on them.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. &# The classic framework for analyzing a firm’s strategic position is Michael Porter’s Five Forces.

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