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The Changing Venture Landscape

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On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. That used to be called A-round investing. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ?

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

SoCal Delicious

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients.

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

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It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. They always ask whether I see this as threatening as Upfront Ventures. And this is true.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. Rick led Pequot’s investments in StubHub (Acquired by eBay), First Advantage (NASDAQ: FADV) and US Search. Bambi Francisco.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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You see – running a SaaS platform for customers like you is the ONLY thing our team does. If you want that kind of service focus I think we’d be a better fit than your internal IT department.” How responsive are they to your needs now? Do they carry pagers and respond to outages 24/7/365?

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