socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Budzik joined Perfect Market in November, after the firm acquired Chicago-based MediaRiver, a developer of content being used to match advertising to web pages. Perfect Market is funded by Idealab, Trinity Venture, and Rustic Canyon Ventures. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Santa Monica-based Docstoc rolled out a new feature for the firm's web-based document sharing service Thursday, which allows users to embed preview links into their web pages of documents on the site. The feature is only available to users registered with the Docstoc site. The firm is headed by Jason Nazar.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. 10mm in Series C. Read more: PEHub.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on their capital calls, we’ll all quickly find the venture community becoming drastically constrained. So what does this mean for internet entrepreneurs?

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. Back to the company, what's your status now in terms of funding? Obviously eBay is really successful because you have the largest inventory of product online. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. And it’s not just the movement from Palo Alto to San Francisco. As a result younger people are creating startups because they can.

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