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We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on.

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JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. In California.

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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. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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APRIL 21, 2020

million people EMPLOYED in California. Of our early-stage deals we do 33% Seed, 66% A’s) Why recycling is important, but why without exits you might even be forced to stop paying management fees for a while What Will Happen with LPs in this Economic Market? The reality is that when unemployment sinks in demand is likely to get worse.

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MARCH 17, 2010

so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias. Recruiting will be different – You can build a great management team in LA. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. Go on, have a bit of fun down memory lane!).

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JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. In California that averages around 42.5% Or you have to hit the lottery and be an early player middle management player at Google, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. How’s that for an ex painter?

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APRIL 17, 2010

Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. In a world of growing marketing solutions like FourSquare, GoWalla and Yelp – it will become important for merchants to have tools to manage all of this information.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. 30:30 Mike Jones is one of the five most prolific angel investors in southern California. GaiKai had 50 such engineers, which was a large part of its success.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

My partner was in product management at Demand Media. I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California. The last one was to Salesforce.com where I was VP Product Management.” People read magazines for a reason and it’s a combination of focused content and beautiful images. Many have heard it too often.

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APRIL 17, 2012

The two managing partners are Eric Paley & David Frankel (both former entrepreneurs) but they have also aligned themselves with some of the best known startup savvy entrepreneurs including Chris Dixon (Hunch) and Caterina Fake (Flickr, Pinwheel). And for me. ” So I thought about what was unique about me.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

high or high school with a PC in California in the early 80’s. Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management. Understanding the 5 C’s to decide whether to get an MBA – after the jump. Like Chris Dixon I grew up programing. Would you gain more from that than an MBA?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I love working with Aussies because their outlook on life seems very similar to what I grew up with in California. So ‘what we find’ is that many of our customers are using separate tools for managing these but don’t have a holistic view of the customer.&#. This is part of my series on Startup Advice.

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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. I plan to do a few but not so many I can’t manage them. What gives? Am I a hypocrite? Actually, I’ve changed my views slightly on the issue.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. ” What he meant was that since your scarcest resource as a manager or sales rep is your time you need to qualify better. People who manage processes make more sales.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. A big thank you to my friend Josh Webb who provided the transcription for This Week in Venture Capital with Tige Savage , Managing Director and co-founder of Revolution.

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JULY 6, 2015

This was a dilemma because while it seemed like easy money and a reasonable request I knew it was going to drive up our support and maintenance costs and become hard to manage. Who will manage yours? It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be. So we took a stand. In a hosting facility? You’re IT department.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

2) People/companies who are solving the merchant problem of managing the influx of location-based services, increasing sales and repeat business. Companies need to remember that the most successful apps (at least to us) are the ones around connecting people and communication. 3 things that excite Mark (1:18:06).

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AUGUST 28, 2016

In the Marines he learned what many privileged families in the US grow up with: physical fitness, nutrition, financial management, negotiations and overall leadership. That’s probably no surprise to anybody in the midwest or south but to a person who grew up in California and has never lived in that region I found it astounding.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

And maybe that openness is what has attracted many on the management team of other ethnic groups of Chinese, Iranians and the like? And also why today Mitu attracted $27 million in funding from AwesomenessTV (DreamWorks/Hearst), WPP, Verizon and Upfront Ventures.

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