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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. no, I don’t take affiliate commissions!). In the video I linked to above Farb talks about how he got Rob Lord on board at Grockit.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Southern California Angel Investor 293

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The video link is here. And on top of that, the notes below can be quickly skimmed and if any topic interests you the time in the video is noted so you can skip right to that section. For funding, you’ll see a loose affiliation of early stage investors, something will start slow, and then gain momentum to eventually close the deal.

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Angel Investor Cofounder Southern California .Net 302

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). We are also building an audience from our Poogling Internet Safety Seminars, soon to be an online Webinar/video for broader reach. A great opportunity for more visible networking.

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Southern California Acquisition Cost Customer 170

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AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Internet users in US – 225 million, mobile 260MM. China Internet: 340MM, Mobile a staggering 650MM. couponing, vertical social networks, Internet TV, etc. All have been fascinating. slide 29).

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Asia Southern California China Japan 188

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MARCH 17, 2010

If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained. They also produced GoToMeeting and CallWave.

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Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290