Both Sides of the Table

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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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. e.g. invest $2 mil and expect a $60-$100 mil valuation for exit.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 1, 2013

Audacity is required to build an innovative startup, to invent something new, try to do things others say you cannot do, and Southern California needs many more audacious people in its tech and media startup ecosystem. Risk Taking. So Cal is a perfect environment for innovation and bold risk taking. Be Like Sophia.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

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. Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. There’s a magic and complex dynamic to the combination of things that make California so different.

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