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19 Articles match "Clearstone","Company","Startup"
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Monday, March 1, 2010
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Dealmaker Media – How To Build A Remarkable Company (aka: How Not to Be Boring) - At this special event, we’re thinking out of the box, so you can too. Startup DNA: How do you build a truly remarkable company?
Why does everything in LA Tech have to happen on the same day? Lots to check out this week, especially on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Beyond cash, the other ways an angel group adds value to a startup is through great advice and personal connections.
High-caliber Angels with a lot of experience at both large and small companies, tend to have strong Rolodexes and skills that can be applied to helping portfolio companies. When reviewing their experience, consider both their work history and the companies they’ve backed as investors.
Part IV of a Continuing Series on How to Select an Angel Group
Several months before Jason Calcanis’ crusade (or jihad—depending on your political affiliation) against for-profit
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures.
First, founded a company called thePlatform, which is sort of industrial strength video publishing. A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate
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Monday, June 22, 2009
in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. The company was incubated by Clearstone Ventures, which has been actively pulling together management teams and funding new startups in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Aside from Sonnad, who was at thePlatform, the company includes executives from Shopzilla, Yahoo!, Santa Monica-based Geodelic announced today that the firm is shipping a new application for local discovery, along with T-Mobile USA. According to the venture backed firm, the new software for T-Mobile's myTouch 3G, learns a user's favorite
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Early stage VCs typically say that the ebbs and flows of the stock market don't effect the valuations they pay in start up financings. At the formation stage, when a start up is little more than a business plan and a few dedicated engineers, there are a host of other factors that influence valuations more so than PE multiples of public companies. You see, unless a company only plans on raising one early stage funding round, That may be true. VCs tend to put greater weight on the potential market size of the product being built, the reputations of the founders
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Beyond cash, the other ways an angel group adds value to a startup is through great advice and personal connections.
High-caliber Angels with a lot of experience at both large and small companies, tend to have strong Rolodexes and skills that can be applied to helping portfolio companies. When reviewing their experience, consider both their work history and the companies they’ve backed as investors.
Part IV of a Continuing Series on How to Select an Angel Group
Several months before Jason Calcanis’ crusade (or jihad—depending on your political affiliation) against for-profit
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Your startup (or startup aspirations!). This This must be your first startup in order to win.
Only fools rush in to venture money, and for good reason – underestimate the bargaining power of your target investor, and you may just end up with a broken heart. Before you jump in, you need to understand the strategies and tactics of negotiating a funding round and it starts with the first date. Dealmaker has been putting together conferences and roundtables in LA of consistently high quality for the past two years. These These are the folks that put on the Startonomics
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. (socalTECH The conference, held at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, featured pitches by eight different companies vying for the attention--and pocketbooks--of venture capitalists. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference). The day started with a keynote by John Suh of Legalzoom.com, and topped off with a pitch from David Sacks -- CEO of Geni.com, and also CEO of Geni spinoff
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures.
First, founded a company called thePlatform, which is sort of industrial strength video publishing. A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). We caught up with Peter earlier this week to get the background on Baroda, and to talk a little about the firm's investment goals.
We're We're familiar with Baroda, but for our readers who haven't heard of Baroda Ventures, talk about the story behind the firm?
Peter Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding.
For We started in November, and things really picked up at the beginning of January. People have recognized that, and the word has gotten out in the industry that you can fill up your property using LeisureLink. Yesterday, Pasadena-based LeisureLink (www.leisurelink.com) announced a $6.2M funding round for the firm's travel booking service.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Most of the companies Clearstone invests in have angel money. Perhaps they previously started a company in the same industry or were part of a successful company targeting the same market. When a company comes to Clearstone with some money in the bank from smart in-the-know angels, we get interested quickly. In the past few years, angels have become much more active than they were following the tech crash of 2000. As a VC, I divide angel investors into two buckets.
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