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APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Think about venture capital. That seems very Brad to me.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

If you believe that more great firms will be created out of the successes of Riot Games, Maker Studios, Snapchat, Tinder, Dollar Shave Club and all the other wealth creation activities over the past 5 years — then you have to believe that LA Tech is on the rise and LA Venture Capital is well positioned to be a part of that future success story.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community. 49:30 Steve: When’s the last time venture capital actually led an innovation?

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JANUARY 25, 2015

Or app companies that went viral due to spammy friend requests to download in an app store only to have a community backlash and subsequent crash. If venture capital is propping up your business performance – good luck when the spigot slows one day. Push yourself hard to be honest with yourself.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” We also believe it’s important to be strong pillars of our community. It was more hedge fund than venture capital. It was stunning but sterile. Authenticity.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. The reality is that their core business is not venture capital.

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MAY 24, 2021

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. For years I’ve argued that there was a benefit in giving some of these companies like Invoca the time that it takes most enterprise companies to show the benefits of size and scale.

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JULY 12, 2011

This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital. He believes that users would rather control their personalization, adding that there is an active contributor community at Hunch.com to improve the API and keep it fresh.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Contributing overall with marketing and community outreach activities. We like to get a flow of applicants in before processing. When the process has closed I will update this post to say so. Position: Analyst.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.&#. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. .’ If you’re a young & up and coming rapper and you don’t know what tunecore is – you should know it.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. And Jamie hers.

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APRIL 16, 2011

Be a mensch – the world is small than you think and bad karma will catch up to you “We’re in a very small community. It’s surprising how small the tech community is and the older you get the more you realize how much people from earlier in your life have a way of coming back into it.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

We believe it’s important to have our partners all based in one location so our starting point is wanting our partners to be based in LA and be committed to making this city a vibrant startup community that is now the third largest in the country. As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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MAY 30, 2013

The first time I met Andy Dunn he was working for the venture capital firm Maveron. Yet no matter what side of the table you sit on within the technology community you are going to be faced with very similar situations that test your moral compass. Raising Venture Capital Tech Market Analysis' by Dorrian Porter.

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JULY 13, 2013

So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” So when I got into venture capital, I thought, “Well, what can I do that’s different?” ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.”

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. They were playing small clubs to the gay community (her early ardent fans or “first 50”) and they were getting a warm reception so they wanted to double down on this community.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. After that you could tell that Greg was really “all in” on the LA technology community. Community builders. So why Greg and why now? I first met Greg about 4 years ago or so. Open & transparent.

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JULY 24, 2012

He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. And again I won’t take credit for his decision to join Cooley but the magic of having David join Cooley is simply an awesome outcome for our community at large. He became the go-to guy for many in our community including me. There’s more!

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APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” He’s pushed us to be out in the community more. He’s proved much more efficient that I ever was at tracking the activities of the community.

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MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. And that is precisely my thoughts for Seattle and what I plan to deliver on Thursday night: Which few key community leaders are going to step up and get those neurons properly firing and connected? My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She became part of the fabric of her community. Now working safely inside the confine’s of Launchpad LA’s offices in Santa Monica and surrounded by the tech community, Tracy has been out interviewing technical co-founders.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. So what can a community do?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. He also served nearly 2 years as an EIR and Scout at True Ventures one of the Silicon Valley firms I most respect. He has a lovely family – Joy and Zion – who are also active members of the LA community.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%.

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MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. Over the next few weeks I’m going to release a few posts on what we believe platform services are and why we believe they’re an important part of the future of venture capital. *.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I recently appeared on Fox Business News covering the topic of raising Venture Capital. Other entrerpeneurs – look around in the community at who’s raised money in the last year. If you’re in the market or thinking about VC in the future the following video may be of interest to you – click here to view.

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JUNE 11, 2015

I strong showing on TechCrunch created initial product demand and if you could sustain that it led to buzz overall in the tech community. I think in part because the community of super-passionate early adopters is spending time on Product Hunt whereas websites like TechCrunch or Business Insider have gone more mainstream. 1 minute].

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APRIL 19, 2011

I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program? Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon).

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JUNE 9, 2013

billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. Another is DeviantART who are able to tap into hundreds of millions of people around the world who produce art and help them making a living. Will this Trend Last? That always happens.

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JANUARY 25, 2014

Tom Perkins is one of the founding members of the venerable venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins. He just had his Mitt Romney moment and his name will forever be etched in the collective consciousness of the tech community for this terribly insensitive and tone deaf letter to the Wall Street Journal. ”". Kleiner Perkins.

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JULY 1, 2010

Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Current round: $90mm led by The Founders Fund, including Youniversity Ventures, Glynn Capital, Ulu Ventures, Jeremy Stoppleman, Ben Ling, +. -Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. Total raised: $17mm.

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JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. The community has matured – The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies. But we have a great city for building technology companies. Come join us.

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