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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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MAY 8, 2013

Forbes Magazine has released its latest Midas List , its listing of the top venture capitalists, and--once again--Southern California''s venture capitalists have been shut out of the list. forbes midas list venture capital investment investors technology finance gdot greendot cornerstoneondemand csod' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

This is one of the best episodes of This Week in VC for a long time. They are best known for their magazine titles such as The New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair and Vogue. And they invest n select VC funds. Key moments: 16 minutes in: Transitioning magazine readers to e-formats. That they own Reddit? Watch: [link].

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MAY 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm DFJ Frontier has significantly bolstered the company''s team, saying Tuesday that it has added Merrill Brown --former founder of MSNBC--as a Venture Partner. msnbc media executive capital venture frontier' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Handling PR with VCs. This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. Just notice how many VC emails you get after your TechCrunch article or after you were on stage at TC50.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The San Diego company aid the funding round was led by Foundry Group and True VEntures, and also included O''Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and SK Ventures. Anderson is the former Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine. robotics 3drobotics diydrones venture capital robot aerial flying' READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

What we are creating is less of a consumer magazine. million in seed funding from Crosscut, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, and Female Founders Fund. “We’re the antithesis of Goop,” Berlincourt, a fintech veteran who previously led marketing and product at Simple Finance, tells TechCrunch.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The magazine, in its list of startups worth watching , identified Efficient Power Conversion Corp. The three are among the rare set of semiconductor and hardware startups in Southern California to gain venture backing in the past few years, in what has been a very spotty market for VC investments in the sector.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based GOOD , a media firm which operates Reason Pictures, GOOD Magazine, and GOOD Digital, announced this week that it has raised a Series A funding round. magazine founder Bernie Goldhirsch. Tags: good content media magazine movie venture capital angel nicholas negroponte. Goldhirsh is the son of Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I realized it was part of the process because it’s such a high-volume activity being a VC. What surprised me was how seriously many VCs took themselves. Or they’d speak in the fine-tuned VC lexicon to you. I also loved the guest appearance by Dan Primack of Fortune Magazine.

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MAY 3, 2012

Forbes Magazine has just published its annual Midas List , its annual ranking of the top 100 venture capitalists, and -- despite a record number of IPOs and exits last year from southern California technology companies -- Southern California's venture capital community was shut out of the list entirely.

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MARCH 24, 2016

In what has been a familiar refrain, the annual Midas List ranking by Forbes Magazine of the most influential venture capitalists has completely skipped Southern California's venture capital community, although it did credit the position of at least four of the VCs on the list to their investments in Southern California startups, and highlighted Ashton (..)

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Time Magazine published its “person of the year” edition today and honored “the silence breakers” for speaking up and forcing our society to confront its position towards men in power exploiting their power for sexual gain. As a VC let me specifically just speak out for our industry. Real change is clearly needed. I was wrong.

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Venture Capital Capital Course Report 254

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2012

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 -- Successful Medical Device Company Commercialization Without Venture Capital.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. VC meetings going well. 2 million in VC. I swore never to do that as a VC. What do VC’s Experience?

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JULY 16, 2015

Readz tools offer up a drag-and-drop driven tools which format content into responsive designs for mobile and other platforms, including PowerPoint-like slideshows, scrolling web magazines, and embedded video. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2016

At the Upfront Summit this past week there was an electric interview of Fred Wilson led by well-researched and artful Dan Primack of Fortune Magazine that ended up making news. Do you need to be technical to be a great VC? The newsworthy moment was when Fred expressed his view that companies like Uber should go public.

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Competition Venture Capital Invest Organization 150

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. If you need VC, no better time than the present.

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JULY 19, 2015

I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high-profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The competition comes even as United Online appears to have been beating a quick retreat from that business, instead shifting users to Memory Lane, a new site which offers up actual, digitized high school yearbooks, nostalgic content, old magazine covers, and other products geared to a similar user base as Classmates.com.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. What is Aggregage? Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. VC meetings going well. 2 million in VC. I swore never to do that as a VC. What do VC’s Experience?

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Startup Entrepreneur Venture Capital Ideas 176

Xconomy

JUNE 2, 2016

CEO Chris Anderson, the author and former Wired magazine editor who co-founded 3D Robotics in 2009, did not respond to an e-mail query about the financing yesterday afternoon. If the financing represents a fresh infusion of capital, it would bring total funding for 3D Robotics to roughly $150 million over the past seven years.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. So while I highly recommend working with an external agency once you’ve raised venture capital I think you’ll waste a bunch of money and be less effective unless you first hire staff in-house.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

More recently in 2015, Kiel helped launch Machine Shop Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in early-to-growth stage companies with a global scope. Machine Shop Ventures was featured in WIRED Magazine for its groundbreaking new model. JOE GUZEL – VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTOR – CROSSCUT VENTURES.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. Our inventory is being financed by companies with names like Chase, Citibank, First USA and Capital One. from university professors, to VCs, to entertainers, the bankers, to other entrepreneurs, and that''s what the media picked up on.".

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Pinguino Kolb – Owner of Spelunk.in , an online crypto currency magazine. Moderated by 500 Startups founder Dave McClure (who openly admits to knowing nothing about Bitcoin), our panel consisted of a mix of venture capitalists, angel, and accelerator investors: Joyce Kim – VC at Freestyle Capital.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. I thought, my photos would be photos of women, and be more of a fashion magazine about cars.

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Truecar Writing Edmunds Sites 204

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Kind of like a law firm (or VC firm) with four partners but shortened to just two, people dropped off his second two words. It’s the new magazine. Using the fashion-sharing example, imagine turning your shared fashion photos into beautiful magazine-like collages that can be scrolled through, Pinterest style.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. Early online newspapers and magazines were merely digital versions of their physical self. “People still want calls …&#. Early TV programs featured people sitting in chairs and reading scripts as though they were on the radio.

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Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

Our line-up of panelists include many of Southern California’s top VCs, Angels and Startup Accelerators. Our panelists include: Alyse Killeen – Early Stage Venture Capital Investor and Associate with March Capital Partners. Vishal Lugani – Venture Capital Investor and Associate with Greycroft.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. Our inventory is being financed by companies with names like Chase, Citibank, First USA and Capital One. from university professors, to VCs, to entertainers, the bankers, to other entrepreneurs, and that''s what the media picked up on.".

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I have run newspapers, magazines, and websites and I have written for them all. If you were writing something for Rolling Stone and it happens to appear in the magazine first, but you are also going to appear online. You will find more people doing limited edition magazines that are brand enforcers. That is heartbreaking.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital. “Choosing to bootstrap over raising venture capital has forced us to build a profitable business,” he said. An integral part of CallFire’s success lies in its entrepreneurial roots.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine.

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Startup Snapchat Social Media Venice 111

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

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JANUARY 22, 2013

My husband is Mark Suster and before he was a VC and blogger he was a startup entrepreneur like you. ” So while I admit that when you aren’t traveling as much the thought of getting on a flight to go somewhere fun and have real downtime with a magazine sounds or a movie sounds so tempting.

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