The bulk of venture capital investment comes from the West coast - principally Silicon Valley. Meanwhile Venture Capital accounted for 18% of the U.S. Hedge funds on the other hand profit from short selling and the destruction of capital or stock prices. Most of the Billions of dollars that have moved away The Civil War II has begun but this time it’s not the North versus the South. This Civil War is about money under management in the financial services industry and it’s the West Coast versus the East Coast.

WRS publishes two referral guides that members are encouraged to distribute throughout SoCal, the Yellow Book with members and pre-screened nonmembers listed, and the Blue Book, a list of members only. The events include: So Cal Sushi Social Media Roundtable LinkedIn 101 Workshop Social Media 101 for Businesses Introduction to Twitter for Professionals and Their Personal Branding Frequency/Location: Monthly / Executive Career Services 2955 Main St, Irvine, CA 92614 Cost: $25 Review: I've attended and reviewed Neal's SoCal Sushi Networking events in my list, so these look promising.

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms.  My Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industr My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I [...] ...Tags:

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms.  My Larger online game market ($1 billion) than Japan despite 1/3 population and 1/2 GDP per capital (slide 99).  Way Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industr My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I hope benefit the Southern California technology ecosystem. In the past 6 months we’ve heard

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA).  We meet to discuss trends in the industry and to find ways to work together to help with SoCal deal syndication – somethings that happens automatically on Sand Hill Road in NorCal due to proximity. Montgomery & Co Projects Deal Volume to Grow by 167% in Just 2 Years with No End to Growth in Sight

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital . Look at Josh Kopelman over at First Round Capital .  In SoCal we have great operators like Klaus Schauser , John Greathouse , Matt Coffin , Kamran Pourzanjani and others.  I offered a WAY cleaner term sheet than any angel “club” deal that I’ve seen in SoCal or even from the seed This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter.

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Southern California Venture capital totals were up slightly in Q1 of this year from last quarter, to around $718M in deals, according to an analysis of socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database . socalTECH tracks day-to-day venture capital activity in the Southern California region, and uses venture data disclosed by companies announcing funding; self-reported by both technology companies and venture firms; as well as regulatory filings and other sources. However, According to numbers derived from socalTECH's venture database, there was $717.96M invested in Southern California in the first quarter, up from only $465M in Q4 of 2008.

In 2007, the region saw the second highest level of capital investment in the U.S. (beat Tags: Investing SoCa IPO vs. Acquisition, Band of Angels vs. Tech Coast Angels, Facebook vs. MySpace, Stanford vs.

Southern California’s venture capital investment activity appears to have stalled, according to Q4 numbers released  over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource.  The report found that Southern California’s venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent for the year. Tags: Venture Capita The question is — are the Q4 numbers a preview of a dismal Q1 investment quarter, as well? ...Tags: