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What Future for Accelerators?

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I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies. We had a specific goal in mind.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. DEAL OF THE WEEK.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?