Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It’s really hard to zig when the whole world seems to be zagging. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. It was an investment management class.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2009

According to numbers derived from socalTECH's venture database, there was $717.96M invested in Southern California in the first quarter, up from only $465M in Q4 of 2008. PIPE in Cadence Pharmaceuticals , a $50M PIPE in Clarient , as well as venture investments in Sangart ($50M) and Victory Pharma ($45M). billion in funding.

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Southern California SoCal Invest SoCalTech 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

We've defined this as an incubator or investor which creates companies--usually, from in-house efforts, but sometimes in partnership with external entrepreneurs--and invests in them and often provides resources, offices, and more to get those companies off the group. Managed by: Bill Gross. Funding: Yes. Amount: Varies. Brighthouse.

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Southern California Incubator Guide Truecar 145

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor group in the US, with nearly 300 members and $100M personally invested in startups over the last decade. And in recent years, they’ve been involved in some interesting SoCal startups such as Zag, SodaHead, and Vokle. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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Tech Coast Angels SoCal Southern California Angel 61

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

It will remain to be seen if local entrepreneurs from such firms as Zag, Docstoc, and others will open up more links between high tech firms and entrepreneurs in Israel and Southern California. Tags: israel israeli conference technology high tech investment.

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Southern California High Tech Zag Conference 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We've seen a lot of innovation come out of Los Angeles in the past few years, with Demand Media, Socialvibe, Zag, ShoeDazzle, Factual and many others. One company I've invested in is called 2tor (with substantial operations here in Los Angeles).

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Redpoint 234

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. to source potential candidates.

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eHarmony Marketing Startup Zag 204

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. to source potential candidates.

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eHarmony Marketing Startup Zag 196

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Companies we've selected are those that are the most exciting, and high profile, that people will want to invest in. We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing.

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Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created two new generation LA startups (Zag and TrueCar, both backed by GRP Partners). LA investors are more pragmatic. Frank Addante has created Rubicon Project.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290