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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Caveat Emptor – look out Seed Investors for the $0 return startup.

Scalable Startup

By most measures, we are in crazy times right now in the tech startup world. A $1 billion valuation used to be a big deal for a web based company that wasn’t one of the top few. I remember being asked in a startup panel I was on by the moderator “What do you think of the Series A crunch?”

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

techcrunch.com

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. e.g. invest $2 mil and expect a $60-$100 mil valuation for exit.

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California Startup Gold – bring it here to scale it

Scalable Startup

Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. There’s a magic and complex dynamic to the combination of things that make California so different. I’ve rooted for other places to approach California’s ecosystem, but I know they’ll never come close. That has all changed. tomnora @cowlow.

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Be Audacious, like Sophia Amoruso.

Scalable Startup

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. magazine, with a valuation of somewhere between $600 million and $1 billion. Risk Taking.