Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Now they are partners. Of course the naysayers are out again.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

Companies right now are looking for one partner to handle all of their in-office food, snacking, and beverage needs, and now more than ever, HUNGRY is that complete partner for them.”. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. You won’t regret it.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 3, 2019

Furthermore, when you are in a business environment, it will be much easier to find the perfect business partner for your startup. Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles is undoubtedly one of the best US cities for startups. The result of this mixture is the increase in investments and investors in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. When I look at the one thing I’m still waiting to see in Los Angeles – it’s the tent-pole company that lifts up all else.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in. San Francisco, CA.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

has announced that it is partnering search giant Google to support the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States and around the world. Media and event company Women 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2020

Ridesharing sharing services for kids – there is a huge market in metro areas such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, where busy parents spend a lot of time driving their children around. It would be advisable to bring in a partner or an employee with marketing experience. You can focus on airport rides only.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Just last week, the following email went out to all users in Los Angeles (see graphic below). When I used to travel to Los Angeles and Seattle on business I would use a rental car.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 24, 2014

If you’re an investor or a developer looking for work, London and Greater Los Angeles actually offer favorable conditions. For example, they found out that startups seeking talent, as opposed to funding, should look at cities like Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. My partner Kara wrote a great post on the topic that you should read. we have a long way to go.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

he promised me he’d drop Corp Dev knowledge), who along with Aditi Maliwal (runs our FinTech practice) will be based in San Francisco. At Upfront we have always done 40% of our investing in Greater Los Angeles and it’s precisely for this reason. each with partners as the lead. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5: In total, they are valued at more than $100 billion today. #1:

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A friend calls me up from: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, wherever and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. If you really think you’re committed to Los Angeles — then just move there. I’ve had this conversation many times. Move there.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

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Scott Edward Walker

AUGUST 25, 2011

Indeed, whether you’re raising funds, entering into a partnering agreement or selling your company, you need to do your diligence and assess with whom you are dealing. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me directly at 310-288-6667 (Los Angeles) or 415-979-9998 (San Francisco). Cheers, Scott.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Ultimately, this has enabled us to create a new market where one previously did not exist, while also providing us with the operational flexibility to partner with multiple players throughout the existing craft beer value chain, now expanding beyond beer. Over the past two years, we have become experts in alcohol laws and regulations.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

More often multiple different manufacturing partners are relied upon to bring products and services to the marketplace. Beyond manufacturing, IT, logistics, and transportation partners are required for the delivery of products and services to the end customers. Provide Training and Education to Your Supply Chain Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

This morning it was announced that Matt Murphy had left his role as a partner Kleiner Perkins to join as a partner in Menlo Ventures. As much of the coverage in the press this morning acknowledges it’s rare for a partner to leave from one firm to another. He’s with you in good times & bad.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

And I’m anticipating doing a lot of this in the places our portfolio companies are scattered: the Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Portland, San Diego, Boston, Salt Lake City, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and so on. Perhaps San Francisco rents are positively correlated with VC’s internal rate of return!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

A friend calls me up from “you name it&# city: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. If you REALLY think you’re committed to Los Angeles – then just move there.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

We share a bit more background on our investment via the Homebrew blog and is also nicely summarized in this SF Chronicle article about Pillow’s funding : “That merging of online and real-world operations is one of the most exiting startup trends of the past few years,” said Hunter Walk, a partner at Homebrew, which led the seed round.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2015

seed round, we are investing alongside 500 Startups, Nexus Venture Partners, Arena Ventures, Maiden Lane Ventures, Funders Club, Haystack Fund, Ludlow Ventures, and many super angels. In this $1.8M If you find yourself in these cities soon, make sure to download the app on iOS or Android and try a new experience!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Every now and again I like to drive from LA to San Francisco (6 hours) in stead of flying. I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital? I don’t want to be on autopilot.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

We create a great reading experience for the web, as well as a print edition, which gets delivered with select Sunday editions of the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Sacramento Bee. We have fun shows coming later this month in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Texas Sunday ?

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. But there will be," Citron says.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). Mobile gifting service. Company still in beta.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

When none came to light, he followed a lead to Los Angeles and by Wednesday he was signing a contract with a lab there that usually does anti-doping testing. But a colleague turned him on to a lead in Los Angeles. I flew down to LA Tuesday morning from San Francisco, and we had signed the agreement by Wednesday.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. "Good talent is going to make the difference in the growth of our organization and in the future," says Perrault. "So So were willing to pay for good talent."

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

8: San Francisco, CA Oct. 16: Los Angeles, CA Oct. 17: Los Angeles, CA Oct. Entrepreneurs make connections with other entrepreneurs, mentors, corporate partners, and investors who will help their company succeed. Washington D.C. 18: Startup Week?—?Denver, Denver, CO?—? RSVP here Sept. RSVP here Oct.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2010

Unicast is a leading interactive technology company with offices in New York City, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco. Unicast has office presences in Austin, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and London – however New York and Austin represent the two primary hubs of our operations.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 3, 2010

This deal will make the company the Austin-based game studio for Zynga, adding to operations in San Francisco, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Bangalore, and Beijing. The Challenge Games team of 35 employees will be immediately integrated into Zynga’s workforce.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

I have three superb partners who I get to work with on deeply satisfying activities. Finally, I live in what I think is the best town in the world (Boulder) and spend plenty of time in several great cities in the US (New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston.).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback. While this is the first time I’m working with Matt, my partner Seth has known him going all the way back to high school and Mark Solon , one of the managing partners at Techstars, worked with him during his time at Village Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I know it’s not single-handed as he has both fantastic partners at Foundry Group and many other community leaders. But he has helped put Boulder on the consciousness of so many young, aspiring entrepreneurs in search of somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay Area to work & live. But who know? Marketing Muscle.

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