Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal. Interestingly, nobody I know in NorCal EVER calls it Silicon Valley, “Silicon Valley.” I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are. And for me.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 4, 2013

PRWEB) April 04, 2013 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an accounting and financial services firm that specializes in providing outsourced support to early-stage companies, announced today the hires of Katherine Gaffney and Tim Maher as new Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) for the company’s Los Angeles office.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. And this Silicon Valley bias isn’t limited to any single meeting – it has been a recurring theme in my time as a VC. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Even when you’re a small fish, it’s just easier to find your way around,” he said in an interview with The Next Web on the sidelines of Silicon Beach Fest. In its early stages, losing a customer would have doomed the startup, so it placed a strong emphasis on service. “We The company has managed 95 percent retention of clients.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Most of my 25 year career has been in California; about half of those in Silicon Valley. I’ve been involved with several amazing companies throughout Northern and Southern Cal; I have expanded, launched, M&A’d, relaunched, liquidated, succeeded and failed, you name it. But they don’t quite make it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. We’re the largest fund in Southern California.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 18, 2012

Southern California is going to reach the tipping point. 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. I guess it could happen, So Cal could surpass Silicon Valley some day.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

Madrona focuses its efforts on funding early-stage companies, especially ones that they determine to have the potential to innovate and disrupt markets. Southern California. This region is well-known as the home of Silicon Valley, as well as a growing tech hub in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

He had no doubt that had he started the company in Silicon Valley, he would have received funding, but the paying customers are all in Southern California — a lot of car manufacturers are based in LA and that makes up a good chunk of his clientele.

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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. In the history of Southern California, there has always been a large slice of creativity involved also.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

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