SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I joined immediately and became the Zevia go-to-girl for Southern California. They were in need of someone in California to close deals and quickly manage this Southern California territory. The company ultimately sold to Northwood Venture Capital in 2010. The company was based in Seattle.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. I'd also recommend you subscribe to So Cal Tech Central. It brings together events and content for Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. I'd also recommend you subscribe to So Cal Tech Central. It brings together events and content for Los Angeles.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 16, 2019

I’m at an offsite down in southern California. The act of convincing a new investor to get conviction & set a price is a healthy checkpoint for all parties – founders, early employees & existing investors.” Hi everyone. ” Whoops!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

. - What advice do you have for people who want to get into venture capital? I talk in the video about the economics of venture capital and how we make money. We then had a full session with Rick Smith, founder of Crosscut Ventures (along with Brian Garrett). Don’t. Beyond The Rack.

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 7, 2012

Southern California Angels on Twitter and Facebook. Are you a southern California angel (or do you know one) who’d like to be on our list? Click here to add an angel. Jason Calacanis (Los Angeles). Sample Investments: [link]. Matt Coffin (Los Angeles). Sample Investments: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. A Sense of Purpose.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. My guest today is Nate Redmond.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are. Some Other Thoughts on Branding / Positioning. And for me.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

They are the founders of a new VC firm called SoGal Ventures , Pocket Sun and Ellie Galbut. She was on the cover of Forbes Asia as a 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital, a LinkedIn Top Voices in VC & Entrepreneurship, and was featured on BBC, CCTV, Inc., Afterwards, I’ll publish the interviews to the public on my blog.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

So hopefully, the next time you are driving in Southern California, rather than crawling along on one of the region's painfully congested freeways, you are instead whisking to your destination through a safe and state-of-the art giant transportation tunnel.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. The community has matured – The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The two founders, Lucinda Lent and Juliet Bodystun wanted to raise $150,000 in return for 15% of the company in order to franchise their concept nationwide. Even after paying the two founders $100,000 collectively in salary, the business still made a profit in the $125,000 to $150,000 range.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

Last week I saw the movie " The Founder ," which details which the amazing story of Ray Kroc and the early days of the McDonald's restaurant chain. Kroc’s curiosity was so piqued that he got in his car and drove 2,000 miles from his Illinois home to Southern California to see for himself how they were doing it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. I would say the same thing about True Ventures. What gives?

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. But there will be," Citron says. Weve reached out to the schools."

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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. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Southern California, The “Silicon Basin” - - With the convergence of social media, the Internet, and digital entertainment, Southern California is now humming as a great startup region. Venture Capital from Northern and Southern Cal is flowing into the L.A.

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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. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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www.jasonnazar.com

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. A perfect case in point is Mark Hendrickson the founder of Plancast. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. So why would raising venture capital be any different. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder. We’re the largest fund in Southern California.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

As we head into 2016, we leave behind a year of robust trends for venture capital—or “VC”—funding. The Pacific Northwest had a great overall year for venture capital activity in 2015—even if you count the 59 percent dip in Q4. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other detriments to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions. Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.”.When

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. Founders need to see eye-to-eye or things will be very difficult. Speak human! (0:46:20)

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based.

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