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41 Articles match "Clearstone","Venture Capital"
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
2. Do they actually have capital and a track record of investing their own personal funds
3. couple of years ago, William Quigley of Clearstone Venture Partners wrote an appropriate blog post, Value of Certain Angel Investors :
As a VC, I divide angel investors into two buckets. 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 angel groups, I wrote a post about evaluating angel groups and the criteria to use when seeking
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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, Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office. 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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Monday, February 1, 2010
ThisNext said the Series C funding round came from Clearstone Venture Partners, Anthem Venture Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Tags: thisnext stylehive merger acquisition venture capital social shopping communit Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced this morning that it has acquired fashion and beauty site Stylehive , and raised a Series C round of funding. The firm did not disclose amount of the funding, however, a regulatory filing by the firm last week indicated the funding round was worth $1.2M.
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
There has been a lot of conjecture about how the Venture community will respond to the economic downturn. If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on their capital calls, we’ll all quickly find the venture community becoming drastically constrained. Erick Schonfeld writes about the current state of affairs in his TechCrunch post: “ The End of Venture My personal opinion is that its going to be bad, really bad. Instead of making as many new investments, VCs
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy in the Musical Instrument Business Keywords Layoffs Fund Venture Capital Events Technology Angel Mahalo Zag MySpace Geni
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Trouble in Venture Capital? "Keep Clearstone's Jim Armstrong shares some sobering year-end perspectives. "Things VC returns are nearly 100% correlated to the IPO market; and that's troubling! Tags: Interview: venture capitalis Keep the faith!" Things get good as fast as they went bad," Jim encourages.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
This morning's Insights & Opinions piece comes from Jim Armstrong , Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners . Tags: insights opinions armstrong clearstone venture capita Jim is very active helping Southern California's aspiring entrepreneurs, and has been instrumental in helping to promote the technology industry here. Jim has been giving helpful advice to CEOs recently on his blog , and we're sharing his recent top ten list of board meetings do's and don'ts for CEO.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Southern California venture capitalists are mostly absent from Forbes’ latest Midas List — the magazine’s list of the most influential venture capitalists — with the exception of Domain Associates’ James Blair . The subjective list–based on Forbes’ assessment of how much venture capitalists did for their investors–has previously included Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures , Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures , Andrew Senyei of Enterprise Partners , and Clearstone’s Bill Elkus , along with Blair.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Frank recently talked with Clearstone’s Jim Armstrong about Jim’s views on how the economy is affecting both startups and the venture capital business, and it’s well worth a listen to get an idea of the issues facing both startups and venture capitalists in the new year. (btw, Tags: Venture Capital Economy Entrepreneurshi Frank Peters, podcaster at the Frank Peters Show and chairman of the Tech Coast Angels, always has informative and in-depth interviews. btw, we’re now cross-posting relevant interviews from Frank’s podcast
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total.
San San Diego led investment activity in Q3, with a large number of the biggest VC deals The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are not far off from socalTECH's totals from last quarter, which totaled up around $932M in investment activity.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Seeing last week’s Venture Capital Dispatch in the online Wall Street Journal, When Venture Capitalists Let One Slip Away , reminded me of Jim Armstrong’s (Clearstone Venture Partners) comment last year about false negatives. “You If you think VCs and Angels have had some of the biggest investment oversights, here are some of the bigger and more amusing ones from outside the VC community:
“We 8220;You can afford to have a false positive; you can afford to invest in things and fail, but because the big ones are so rare, you cannot afford a false negative.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
2. Do they actually have capital and a track record of investing their own personal funds
3. couple of years ago, William Quigley of Clearstone Venture Partners wrote an appropriate blog post, Value of Certain Angel Investors :
As a VC, I divide angel investors into two buckets. 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 angel groups, I wrote a post about evaluating angel groups and the criteria to use when seeking
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Frank Peters , of the Frank Peters Show, talks with Clearstone Ventures' Jim Armstrong about Trouble in Venture Capital .
Mixergy's John Greathouse , a partner at Rincon Venture Partners, gives an extensive tutorial on how to (or how not to) compensate entrepreneurial advisors .
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