article thumbnail

Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

article thumbnail

Henry Blodget Loves to Blog: The remaking of a disgraced Wall Street analyst

From the Venture Trenches

Today Blodget is running one of the most successful financial online magazines, Business Insider. Blodget’s story provides a great insight into the changing landscape of the three world’s that intersect at Blodget’s desk: financial analysis, on-line magazines and journalism. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

article thumbnail

Henry Blodget Loves to Blog: The remaking of a disgraced Wall Street analyst

From the Venture Trenches

Today Blodget is running one of the most successful financial online magazines, Business Insider. Blodget’s story provides a great insight into the changing landscape of the three world’s that intersect at Blodget’s desk: financial analysis, on-line magazines and journalism. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.