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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years. For Upfront Ventures, across > 25 years of investing in any given fund 5–8 investments will return more than 80% of all distributions and it’s generally out of 30–40 investments. So it’s about 20%.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. were more distributed. At MakeSpace we had to build complex models to tell us how our pricing and conversion compared down to the neighborhood level.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. I regularly do wine tastings here in Los Angeles with some interesting folks I know. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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7 Time-Saving Marketing Automation Features for Maximizing Outreach

The Startup Magazine

“We primarily use manufacturing and CRM automation tools in our industry to ensure flawless business growth,” say marketers at Front Signs, Los Angeles sign company of B2B projects. Content Distribution . Comprehensive marketing automation tools should include capabilities for content distribution.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. It’s also steps away from the Rlab , the mixed-reality accelerator we recently graduated from and maintain close ties with.

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Why Meg Whitman is Betting on Quibi as“The Da Vinci Code of Content”

Both Sides of the Table

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) I hope you’ll enjoy the interview as much as I did.