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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. 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.

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Southern California #Angels and Their Investments

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Southern California Angels on Twitter and Facebook. Are you a southern California angel (or do you know one) who’d like to be on our list? Click here to add an angel. Jason Calacanis (Los Angeles). Matt Coffin (Los Angeles). Sample Investments: [link].

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

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With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. 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.

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California Startup Gold – bring it here to scale it

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The term Silicon Valley is now a misnomer – it has moved way beyond silicon and way beyond the original Santa Clara valley to spread all over California. The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc. Venture Capital from Northern and Southern Cal is flowing into the L.A.

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500 Startups? How about 5000!

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Southern California is going to reach the tipping point. A year ago I wasn’t so sure but now it’s getting crazy. Craig Page @CraigDPage hosted a party 2 weeks ago in Santa Monica that celebrated 500 startups in the SM/Venice ecosystem known as Silicon Beach these days, and he may not be far off.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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Can You Create a Great App Without a Tech Background? One Entrepreneurial Mom Shows You How It’s Done

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Jillian Darlington, right, the founder of the MomCo app, with her co-founder Beth Bryan. Initially, she cast a wide net, focusing on any angel investors who would meet with her locally in Southern California. See Also: How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors.