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Dave Ryan of Mission Ventures On Exits

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Last month, San Diego-based venture capital firm Mission Ventures (www.missionventures.com) sold its portfolio firm, Carlsbad-based 3E , just the latest in a string of exits for the firm, which also included an IPO in Maxlinear earlier in the year. How much involvement did Mission have in that sale? READ MORE>>.

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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

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Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway. www.demandmedia.com). Generation Partners.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

We tend to be better at things like team building, negotiations, sales, and fundraising – which are arguably the most important skills entrepreneurs should posses. Plus there are amazing LA tech events put on by DealMaker Media , DigitalLA , Twiistup , and many more. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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