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Frank Peters , of the Frank Peters Show, talks with Clearstone Ventures' Jim Armstrong about Trouble in Venture Capital . Mixergy's events in Los Angeles and Orange County--talks with the guys at 37Signals about bootstrapping your company . Visitors to our web site are most likely familiar with our Insights and Opinions section, where we share advice, opinions, insights, and more from our readers. The latest contributions: Docstoc's

The Founder Institute already runs programs in Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, San Diego and Orange County, as well as Paris and Singapore. The group said Monday it is running an information session at Clearstone Ventures Thursday evening. ...Tags: The Founder Institute , the business incubation and mentoring program started by TheFunded's Adeo Ressi , is expanding into the Los Angeles area, and is accepting applications for entrepreneurs for a Spring session, the group said late last week. The Los Angeles effort is being headed by Ken Rutkowski

Orange County had $66.8M PwC/NVCA said that Mission Ventures and Enterprise Partners were the most active local VCs for the quarter, with five deals each; Clearstone Ventures had four, and DFJ Frontier and Palomar Ventures reported three deals each. Dow PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on Q3 venture capital totals, saying that $475.5M was invested in 65 Southern California deals in Q3, compared to $773.3M

Dave appeared this morning at the Orange County Venture Group 's Financial Outlook for 2009. Also participating were PIMCO Executive VP Ramin Toloui, Clearstone Venture Partners ' Jim Armstrong and Montauk Triguard 's Sam Tang. Mission Ventures ' Dave Ryan aptly describes the current challenges facing venture capital markets, "like catching a falling knife". If Montauk Triguard doesn't ring a bell, note that Sam manages Pacific Life 's private equity portfolio.

in 40 deals; with Orange County totaling $81.1M According to the report, the most active Southern California investors (those with their headquarters in Southern California) were Clearstone Ventures, with 6 deals; followed by Miramar Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, Amgen, Shepherd Ventures, Avalon Ventures, NGEN Partners, and Anthem Ventures, all with 3 deals each. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Tags: california diego 2008q4 southern angeles county capital thomson investment reuters orange venture moneytre PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3