Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Diversity” and “Domain Experience”.

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Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. Communications.

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Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Banks often have operating covenants for their loans that require the company to be hitting plan, or close to it. Another source of loans is Venture Debt firms, including Triplepoint , Pinnacle , WTI and many others. Fat Ass Fudge. Scott Martin, or Scottie Claus as he preferred, pitched the Living Christmas Company.

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Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 162

Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

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. Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. Venture Capital from Northern and Southern Cal is flowing into the L.A.

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California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

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. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations.

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Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62