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Valuations 101: The Dave Berkus Method

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Dave Berkus is a founding member of the Tech Coast Angels in Southern California, a lecturer and educator. For example, some investors would not fund a company without at least a minimum of customer feedback or intellectual property. He has invested in more than 70 startup ventures.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. He has written several books on intellectual property law. He was raised and educated in London.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? We have a working alpha version now and are planning to launch a beta in the next 6-8 weeks.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? We have a number of startups (or pre-startups) that we are helping get launched. I really like the focus of your blog.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Did law school in Southern California and had no intention of coming back. Then came back as a sort of a young intellectual property attorney, working for a wonderful firm here in town. And that is what guided me, like many others, to pursue school and early career elsewhere. I didn't know what that would look like.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

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. There does seem to be some shifts on where the money is going.