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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

It boasts 595 member-managed groups and VCs, 30,203 investors, and 2,900 new company applications a month. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $200M in 260 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! They did not take salaries during the first two years and invested more money in the firm than they received from management fees. and Half.com. They have sixteen people on staff.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

It boasts 448 member-managed groups and VCs, 15,414 investors, and 2,400 new company applications a month. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.

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A Review of Skytop Lodge: The Collapse of an Icon

Mike Michalowicz

I discovered Skytop in 2000. Her friends came from all over to celebrate with her, including her best friend of forty years from California. We showered my wife with fun, celebration, small gifts and one big one – I reserved a two-day, two-night stay at Skytop for my wife and her friend from California. Sadly, it is not.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. municipalities are also the most fiscally troubled. Ironically, given the U.S.’s