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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. Panic ensued as we couldn’t bring the dogs to San Diego and my brother’s three kids look forward to this great trip all year. ” She arrived late that night in San Diego. In this case somebody named Todd Adamson. Thank you.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., Austin, TX.

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The Big Secret to Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

At the time, Tom was a partner at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital in San Diego. At the time (around 2003), many venture capital firms were licking their wounds. This entrepreneur’s name was Chet Holmes. Years ago I served on a funding panel with Tom Clancy.

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How to Raise Money When You’re Not in a Major VC Market

Both Sides of the Table

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. If you don’t live in a major VC zone, I have some tips for how to make it easier to raise Venture Capital. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship. I’m in NY 6-8 times.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks.