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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community.

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The 4 Best Cities In America For Startups

YoungUpstarts

If you really want to make it, you need to go somewhere that allows you to network with the thriving tech community. Seattle might not be the biggest city on the map, but it’s got a reach that extends to all corners of the globe. With luck, we might even make some money doing it. There is just one problem – you can’t do it alone.

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Q3 2023 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

Empowered introduced “Financing Accelerator”, an online platform designed to simplify clean energy financing for contractors and revolutionize the way financing is seamlessly integrated into the clean energy sales process. Filebase introduced custom domain support for dedicated IPFS gateways.

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How to Raise Money When You’re Not in a Major VC Market

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And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. They often ask whether they have to move to SF, NY or LA to get financed. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” I have the same response always, “Where do you want to live?

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Jason Fried is on Cloud Nine

Growthink Blog

Just take any week of venture financings these last few years and you will find that almost all of the companies funded to be cloud-delivered software businesses. Communication Intelligence Corp (Redwood City, CA), Supplier of electronic signature solutions for businesses - $2.2 10 million.

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