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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Here, we have Greg Martin, Founder and Managing Partner of Archer Venture Capital (www.archervc.com). We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Tap Into Southern California's High Tech Economy with socalTECH

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Insights and Opinions: Exit Strategies in 2010

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For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have a piece from Megan Jones , an investment banker from Hadley Partners Incorporated: As I often say, I grew up in and out of Silicon Valley with a dad in high-tech. So, early on I knew what venture capital is (along with "chips", "boxes", "burn rate" and other valley lingo).

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ICanBuy Gets Series A Funding

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The firm said the funding came from high tech execs Vahid Manian and Massoud Dabir. The firm said it will use the funding to expand marketing and sales efforts at the company. Tags: icanbuy venture capital mortgage home loan real estate realestate. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. You’re a tech guy. I talked with a few VCs and batted around the idea of becoming a VC. No prizes for guessing how my VC chats went. We take MBAs.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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One complaint we sometimes hear from venture capitalists visiting Southern California for the first time, is the difficulty of finding experienced entrepreneurs and executives. socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region.

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The Impact Matrix: Prioritize Your 2013 Initiatives Using This Startup Ninja Tool

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I now use the Impact Matrix as a venture capital investor to help our portfolio companies objectively evaluate which initiatives they should pursue in the near-term, which they should re-considered in the future and which should be dismissed entirely. Share and Enjoy.

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