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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. I think most people know we’re HQ’d in LA (Santa Monica to be exact) but we invest nationally and internationally. We have a team of 7 in San Francisco (a counter bet on our belief that the Bay Area is an amazing place.)

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Note: Company headquarters is in Los Angeles with major R&D also happening in Northern Virginia. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. Upfront Ventures'

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius. He has also sailed a boat across the Atlantic.

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4 Deadly Legal Mistakes That Startups Make

Scott Edward Walker

IP Ownership. There are three deadly mistakes that relate to intellectual property (IP) ownership, all of which usually surface when the investors conduct their due-diligence investigation: 1. and the employee handbook to determine if there are any provisions that may give the prior employer rights to your startup’s IP.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

Taking it from an investor perspective (not me, angels) I think it’s totally unfair to see early angels invest, take more risk, help you get to the next level through both sweat & money, and then pay a higher price because the round had a convertible note with no cap.

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Shout Out to Seth Levine, or the In-N-Out burger startup

Scalable Startup

Currently Los Angeles is in what could be a startup renaissance or an apocalypse, dependent on how long the hype goes on. If more people like Seth step up with their qualified voice, they could help save us from or lessen the big crash coming. I’ve been harping about this a lot (too much?) for over a year: [link].

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Los Angeles St. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. I started with words that captured the essence of the product, tried their hindi, latin and greek words.

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