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JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Current round: $90mm led by The Founders Fund, including Youniversity Ventures, Glynn Capital, Ulu Ventures, Jeremy Stoppleman, Ben Ling, +.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. There is one person I am especially proud of and that’s Tracy DiNunzio at Tradesy.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. ” And then there are incubators and accelerators. .” What do I mean? Defense is when you react to others. It’s inbound.

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MAY 5, 2011

I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s a very cool vibe at Founder’s Coop. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. My close friend Brian Moran (co-founder of BuildOnline) was an architect and is now a real estate developer and adviser. It’s either part of the DNA or it’s not.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate followed through on his views by investing in LA accelerator Science , run by the venerable Mike Jones , who is a former founder (UserPlane, sold to AOL), tech exec (at AOL and later at MySpace) and one of LA’s most prolific (and well liked) angels. 22:00 Mark’s book recommendation: American Pastoral by Philip Roth.

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JULY 10, 2012

In driving down the costs of building businesses it’s driving down the age of startup founders and thus they’re starting companies where young people want to live – in urban environments. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators.

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JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Venture firms wanted to meet talented Black founders but didn’t know where to start to find them. In fact, one of the biggest criticisms I personally get when I suggest that founders should “get introductions to VCs” is that this might reinforce existing racial imbalances by providing easier access to White professionals than people of color.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”. The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish.

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