Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

When I kicked off Launchpad LA a year ago I had a few objectives: Create an ecosystem where all Southern California VC’s had the chance to work together more actively outside of the boards on which we mutually sit. We get participation from nearly every major VC firm in Southern California, which was magical.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. 30:30 Mike Jones is one of the five most prolific angel investors in southern California.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? We should keep comparing notes on your list and my Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California. I'm not sure how to find these and have wondered that myself. Advice for Steve? What was the best one you’ve been to recently?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

He mostly covers Southern California. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California. Anyone who does IP law in Southern California seems to use Knobbe Martens. We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. Our investment strategy has always been to do predominantly Series Seed & A round deals, which makes up > 85% of our first investments.

Las Vegas 396

Las Vegas St. Louis Southern California San Diego 396

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Phoebe had moved to the US (to Southern California) to set up shop, raise money and build a digital team to start to develop her online direct business (much of her product is sold through third-parties today – most of it offline) more fully.

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Merger Southern California eCommerce New Zealand 296

blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. Tags: Jobs Southern California.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

Founder Dating Los Angeles LA Demo Day Startups Uncensored Tech Cofounder Dating Los Angeles TechCoastAngels Online Events Venice Tech Entrepreneurs Downtown Startups LA Startup Nights Santa Barbara Startup Weekend Silicon Beach Fest Silicon Beach Startups Los Angeles Startup Weekend Hollywood Hackday Startup Weekend Los Angeles LA Tech Happy Hour (..)

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Take lots of them out for free coffee, food, beer. Ask them about your concept. You should definitely hit up the Startup Weekend events as well.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As it turns out, innovation is not so much systems and processes as it is about building a risk-taking culture, according to Tellis, a professor of marketing, management and organization as well as the director of the Center for Global Innovation at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

I generally try not to stalk people I don’t know when they announce they’re in town, but as a fellow VC (and a partner in Southern California’s largest fund), I felt we had a legitimate reason to connect. One day Brad Tweeted he was going to be in LA with his dad.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

There certainly are a lot of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that you can use. That’s actually how he met the person who introduced us. But he felt that it was rather random whether he was meeting the right folks.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? Tony: I come at this a bit different, especially a focus on use of social networking tools as part of this. Still it’s something that most managers need to learn how to do better. Tony: So how do you do this and still have dinner at home?

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Los Angeles Revenue Southern California Social Network 225

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf.

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Fractional CTO Southern California Startup Mobile 349

Gust

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Dave Berkus is a founding member of the Tech Coast Angels in Southern California, a lecturer and educator. (in the case of one investment round, no subsequent investment and therefore no dilution). Then: Post-money Valuation = Terminal Value ÷ Anticipated ROI. The Dave Berkus Method. He has invested in more than 70 startup ventures.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Southern California Post-Money Valuation 174

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 ).

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Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. And I’ve just completed my first seed deal of Ad.ly ($500k) with another exciting deal I hope to announce within 30 days. What gives? Am I a hypocrite?

Software Review 283

Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? The one on mind maps makes me wonder: (1) Cliff, where's your mind map for SureToMeet? (2) 2) How do these mind maps change in a 2.0 What was the best one you’ve been to recently?

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Los Angeles Networking Southern California Marketing 150

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

Over time, though, military spending wound down and many large aerospace and military companies left Southern California. Dealflow in Southern California is much more organic and less efficient. Los Angeles, at least metaphorically, became more of a media/entertainment town.

Los Angeles 138

Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA).

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Technical Review IPO Southern California Venture Capital 241

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal.

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Southern California California Metrics Social Media 150

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf.

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Fractional CTO Southern California Startup Mobile 296

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Southern California Angel Investor 293

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

He is a former chairman of the Business Software Alliance, and currently is Chair of the LA Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California. Many clients turn to him for advice on and negotiation of international transactions, often in Latin America. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Floodgate / Information Arbitrage do “big data&# amongst other things), or Founder Collective (consumer & ad-tech knowledge of people like Chris Dixon) or geography (Founder Collective is in Boston / NY, Rincon is the best early-stage in Southern California).

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Southern California Angel Investor Early Stage Silicon Valley 267

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

— Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California. These five forces should ensure continued acceleration towards innovation spurred by technological advances. He is also the Chairman of SP Life Care, a senior living and health care platform in India.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 166

Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Boston, New York City, Seattle and Southern California spawn many exciting startups…but do not exceed the Valley in any measure of entrepreneurial achievement. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Tucson Seattle 107

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

He then said EXACTLY what he was going to be shipping first: A 100% online, fully-accredited Masters in Education degree with the University of Southern California. is an education technology company that partners with top colleges & universities to bring their degree programs and credit-bearing courses online.”.

Southern California 159

Southern California Phoenix Technical Review Seed Stage 159

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In the kelp beds off the coast of Southern California, one can find thousands of species of fish, but two of the most sought after by commercial fishermen are the California Halibut and the White Seabass. A good way to think about market segment is by thinking about fishing.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2018

A BS from IIT-Bombay and a PhD from University of Southern California, he has previously held key technical and management roles at Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Morphics. . Abhijit Shanbag is the CEO of real-time multimedia analytics firm Graymatics. He previously cofounded Scintera, a fabless semiconductor company in 2001.

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Analytics Security Southern California Video 124

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

This year, with the kids grown, their choice was to fly up from Southern California and spend the holidays at our ranch. Since our kids were little our Thanksgiving tradition was to head to Hawaii with friends and eat Thanksgiving dinner under the palm trees to the sound of the waves next to the warm ocean. (

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? That said, I'm convinced that as we figure out how existing social relationships can be integrated into products, we are going to have really interesting opportunities. I'm looking forward to exploring this a bit with you over time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

A group of friends at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) got together to form a league and also had several members of our client at the time Southern California Gas Company. I began playing Fantasy Football in 1993 before it was even a big thing.

Southern California 150

Southern California Philadelphia Mobile Stock 150

Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2014

With 39 million people in the state, there’s no rational reason there aren’t condos, hotels, houses, shopping centers and freeways, wall-to-wall for most of the length of our state’s coast (instead of just in Southern California). The Coastal Act saved California from looking like the coast of New Jersey. And the farmers retire.

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Southern California Developer California Los Angeles 324

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2011

What’s better than chilling out on a Southern California beach? Chilling on a Southern California beach with a great drink in hand, believes The Chill Group. We are excited to launch the brand in Southern California where our roots are,” said Max Baumann, Just Chill ‘s 21-year old co-founder and CEO.

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Southern California California Cofounder Founder 203

Gust

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Dave Berkus is a founding member of the Tech Coast Angels in Southern California, a lecturer and educator. We recently started a series of posts on establishing the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue startup companies for purposes of investment by seed and startup investors. He has invested in more than 70 startup ventures.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Southern California 79

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. Alexia Tsotsis. Thursday, August 9th, 2012. View Staff Page. Follow me on twitter. Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch.

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