Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.
Steve Blank
JULY 20, 2015
Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Listen to my entire interview with Errol: If you can’t hear the clip, click here. That wasn’t surprising to us.
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techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
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. VC’s that do make multiple investments in certain businesses typically do this from multiple funds they manage.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2021
Carbon Health is now running some of the largest vaccination sites in California, most famously at Dodger Stadium, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. I think one of the things that we, who are, you have the privilege of being here, in America, in California, in Silicon Valley. We had to raise some seed capital.
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