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

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. Or, as always, summary notes available below.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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Don’t Buy the Hype

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This can lead to lots of hype among investors and very rapid financings where VCs are forced to “act quickly” and provide term sheets in less than 48 hours. But that may be all that’s needed to grab a financing from investors that moved very quickly. They can create temporary growth in vanity metrics like downloads.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

identify financing vehicles before you need them. It will serve as a test bed for software, services and other technologies to improve the clinician/patient dynamic as well as improving workflows in the clinic. One of the noticeable things about the San Diego health tech community is that it feels like a community.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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VC Financings: 1. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. My understanding is that OpenCandy is a software download where the service gets to better understand you as a consumer. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. OpenCandy.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance. Consumer approach to software for business users. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy. Free product.