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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. What do you invest in? We spent six plus years at a local firm, Palomar Ventures, doing Series A and Series B investments. Let's start with an overview of the fund.

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Interview with Steve Goldman, Ace Metrix

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Ace Metrix is venture backed by Hummer Winblad, and Palomar Ventures. I always yearned for better metrics to allow our customers to make better decisions. So we quit our jobs about two years ago, and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars of our own money, and developed a prototype and started knocking on doors.