Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. I blog on entrepreneurship & VC precisely because entrepreneurs and other VCs are my customers. That may soon change.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Session #1, for CEOs with VC investors or over $1m raised. Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Location: FinaVentures.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Session #1, for CEOs with VC investors or over $1m raised. Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Location: FinaVentures.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Session #1, for CEOs with VC investors or over $1m raised. Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Location: FinaVentures.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Session #1, for CEOs with VC investors or over $1m raised. Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Location: FinaVentures.

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Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2009

Search for Jen Raymond and you’ll get 2 of them – neither one is the Jen Raymond who works for Pfizer and lives in Santa Monica. Third is Bryan Hale, a former colleague from Salesforce.com and former VC from DFJ. And write a short bio about yourself. You get my point – 7 results, none him. Anything.

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Tips Social Media Social Network Santa Monica 216

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. I tend to agree with them but I think that numbers are important in VC meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. Think about venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. PHONE CALLS.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. With this fund, we do not have a cap limit on late stage investments.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product.

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Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” So when I got into venture capital, I thought, “Well, what can I do that’s different?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. Overall we write about $100 million of investment checks every year.

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Funding Venture Capital Santa Monica Invest 287

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. What are the parameters of the investments you make? READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. Now, despite bootstrapping, you actually have some connections to the venture capital world, don't you? Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. It''s the single best. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. I live in the city of Santa Monica. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). I’ll explain in detail below.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We write and create our own content for the game. Headquarted in Santa Monica, CA, CallFire is dedicated to providing high-availability systems, intuitive user interfaces, furious developer support, and unparalleled customer care in order to transform how companies do business.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service.

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