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JULY 15, 2010

We started this week’s show with a Q&A session where I answered viewer questions about fund raising and the VC industry. Heck, stick around and watch me discuss the seed funding debate that is going on right now and what is happening in the VC industry overall. Google’s investment in Zynga.

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APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The new seed stage fund says it is looking to invest in "founders solving meaningful, systemic problems" in those areas. Zhuo and Arabshahi were both previously at Karlin Ventures, and Ho had been a founding GP at Susa Ventures and also an founding executive at Factual, having also worked at Google, YouTube, and Applied Semantics.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

ThinkNear was venture backed by IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Real Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Zelkova Ventures, BoldStart VC, David Tisch and David Cohen, and had raised around $1.6M in a seed funding last year.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of online, contact and relationship management software headed by Jon Ferrara, the former founder of Goldmine, said last night that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Google Ventures and Mark Cuban.

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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. That said, we still need investors here. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2010

One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. And in my interviews with many VCs I feel that people can watch these and get to know the VC’s as human beings a bit better. So how did Mike get into VC?

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JULY 26, 2011

in a seed funding round. The round was led by IA Ventures, and also included Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Real Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Zelkova Ventures, BoldStart VC, as well as angels David Tisch and David Cohen.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

La Jolla-based Nettle , a semi-stealth mode firm which says it is creating a "next-generation social/local/mobile application and website for the global entertainment market", has raised $500,000 in a seed funding. The firm was co-founded by Brian Dear and Dan O'Neill.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

in a seed funding round, and emerged from stealth mode, the company said today. Section 32 is the venture capital fund led by former Google Ventures CEO and founder Bill Maris, which is also based in San Diego. Nervana Systems was acquired in 2016 by Intel. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub. I always wanted to have Dan on This Week in VC with Dan Primack ( to see video click link ) because he’s blunt, honest, opinionated and well informed. Question: Some people are saying traditional VC is dead.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Upfront Ventures is one of the investors in a new, luxury valet service launching in San Francisco, called Luxe. Luxe said Thursday that it has raised $5.5M

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In retrospect, our decision was both perfectly rational and completely lame. > -jeff.

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me. Put simply – if you invested early in Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

A micro venture capital firm. Micro-VCs, by definition, are firms that invest institutional money (meaning other people’s money) in projects that are at the seed stage or are too small to attract the attention of more traditional venture capitalists. A “genesis” venture capital round.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

in a seed financing round, according to the company. The funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners, Wavemaker Partners, Frontier Venture Capital, and Apex Ventures. Los Angeles-based HAAWK , a new startup focused on rights management, copyright enforcement, and content monetization, has raised $2.5M

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MARCH 2, 2017

The funding was led by Imagen Capital Partners, and also included Mark Cuban's Radical Investments, Google Ventures, Indicator Ventures plus angels Jason Calacanis, Howard Lindzon and Don Dodge. in funding, including an earlier seed funding round. Nimble has now raised $12.5M

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JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level.

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APRIL 4, 2012

in a seed funding round. The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included. SoftTech, Google Ventures, Matt Coffin, CrossLink, and Morado. Los Angeles-based WittleBee , the children's clothing site headed by Sean Percival, announced Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $2.5M

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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The Funding Problem.

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MARCH 23, 2011

Nexon said it will gain a seat on A Bit Lucky's board, with David Lawee, head of M&A at Google , and Andrew Trader , part of Zynga 's founding team, also joining as advisors. A Bit Lucky is a developer of such games as the Facebook game Lucky Train.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 million) made by either Angels or venture capitalists, or both. Most active venture capital firm.

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JUNE 5, 2016

Rise of Seed. Prior to then the concept of “seed funds” barely existed and as I’ve argued before the seed fund phenomenon was largely driven by: Open source + horizontal computing + Amazon AWS. In other words, it isn’t that VCs suddenly got smart, it’s that the costs of starting a company went down dramatically.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

This is the narrative that isn’t talked about – but I promise you it is the more common narrative amongst even those that went to top-tier schools, got the right jobs, worked hard in their 20s but didn’t quite join Google, Facebook, Twitter at the right time. She joined Yahoo!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. Think of that challenge like competing for limited venture capital. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), Available seed funding, check; another one down for the startup ecosystem checklist. Although, unlike Rocktr, Perez was on the prowl to raise a real seed round and was finding the Toronto venture capital scene a bit stale.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), Available seed funding, check; another one down for the startup ecosystem checklist. As I toured, he even went on to explain some of the seed funding he does along with incubation. Next thing I know, my ticket is booked. all hold big Canadian offices.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” Of course a group of 10 seed funds can’t fix the prices of a market.

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APRIL 27, 2010

My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I never built Google. Hell – we fought against the VC’s together! They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Perhaps I would call it “Mourning in VC” as in mourning for the days of rational behavior. The cycle before that was Google, Salesforce and LinkedIn, amongst others.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Part 1: Inside the mind of an angel investor and how it differs from professional seed investors and VC. At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. A typical VC (A round) will reserve at least 100-200% of initial investment.

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