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.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2011

Stanford is a leading campus when it comes to entrepreneurship and a new seed fund deepens the web of entrepreneurship on campus. Early stage investment firm North Bridge Venture Partners has joined with the Asia-Pacific Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) and announced a $75,000 seed capital competition.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. Today, there is still seed capital to be found, but you have to show the investors (especially very early stage investors) that you have a viable business. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? I really like the focus of your blog.

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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. There does seem to be some shifts on where the money is going. Translation?

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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.

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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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