socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com).

Funding 196

Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. Some larger VCs felt they were being “scooped&# by some younger, nimbler and smaller VCs. I was an early cynic.

Seed Funding 283

Seed Funding Venture Capital Funding Software Review 283

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA?

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. at a level of specificity you don’t always find in VCs. Someone who inspires others.

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302