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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Xconomy San Diego. San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. San Diego Events ›. San Francisco Events ›. San Diego Home.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby). When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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I started my business in San Diego in 2007. I wanted to move to a city… San Diego was a little too boring for me. My grand plan was to go to San Francisco, but I applied for one job in NYC and got it! Thanks to Candice VanWye, Brown Girl Bloggers ! #16 16 – Laid Off.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

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From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. San Diego Meetup. San Diego, CA. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Disrupt NY 2013. New York City.

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Trends in Seed Stage Funding for Entrepreneurs

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Note that I merged the two Southern California regions (LA/Orange County and San Diego) into one. Southern California = LA County, Orange Cty and San Diego Cty. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. Investment.

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Where Does Foundry Group Invest?

Feld Thoughts

That generated a fun email exchange between us and prompted me to do an analysis on the locations of the direct investments that we’ve made since we started Foundry Group in 2007. We’ve been pleasantly surprised with the expansion of our networks in other geographies, like Southern California (LA, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) and Portland.

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“It takes a very special founder to build a media business long term. I have not met many.” Five Questions With Howard Lindzon

Hunter Walker

Howard Lindzon invites me to San Diego, excuse me – Coronado, periodically for events like “Lindzonpalooza.” Hunter Walk: You’re a Canadian who moved to Phoenix and then San Diego. No fancy story, just a fun adventure and now we call Coronado, San Diego our home. We never left.