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Interview with Mark Stevens, Sequoia and other links

March 30, 2007

My interview with Mark Stevens, General Partner at Sequoia Capital, was posted this morning. From the interview: …we have a bit of what I call an impedance mismatch–you have a lot of money coming into the system, into startups, but you don’t have a lot of highly valued exits. Is there a bit of a [...]

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Real Estate and Startups

March 29, 2007

I’ve found over the years that startup companies usually have lots of questions about office space and real estae. In fact (strange as it may seem), among the most well connected people in the local startup community are the commercial real estate brokers. As part of our Startup section, we’ve recently added an article from [...]

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Universities as catalysts

March 28, 2007

I spent the morning at the University of Southern California Celebration of Innovation, the launch of the USC Stevens Institute, a new effort by the school to advance research and innovation–and hopefully bring that innovation to market. For those who aren’t familiar with the USC Stevens Institute, the new effort is the result of a [...]

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Other links for March 26, 2007

March 26, 2007

In other media covering Southern California companies recently: Fortune covers Santa Monica-based Headplay’s wearable displays. TechCrunch covers Los Angeles-based TutorLinker. More on Qualcomm’s EV-DO chipset in EETimes.

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Map mashups

March 22, 2007

I was just reading an interesting article on map mashups in InformationWeek and noticed a mention of socalTECH’s venture capital map. The article discussing the business use of mashups, by Elena Malykhina at CMP , says: It’s more common to find location mashups about the business world that have been created by independent developers, not [...]

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Southern California Alexa web rankings

March 22, 2007

Just for fun, I ran our database of Southern California high tech companies through Alexa’s Web Services to figure out which ones have the biggest “mind share” on the Internet. There are thousands of companies here and this was done using some coding and Alexa’s Web API. (disclaimer: there’s some controversy over Amazon’s Alexa service [...]

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Web 2.0 Funding in 2006 doubles–but is the party over?

March 21, 2007

Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne released numbers today on Web 2.0 investments in 2006, finding that 2006 investments in Web 2.0 doubled over 2005 — however, a lot of attention is also being given to a post by venture capitalist Peter Rip, titled “Web 2.0 – Over and Out“. Rip points out some [...]

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Drinking through a fire hose

March 21, 2007

I pretty much spend every waking minute following venture capital deals and the news flow, but sometimes it still feels like drinking through a fire hose when it comes to deal activity here. Usually, Southern California has a few major VC deals a week, but we’ve just posted four deals to our news section this [...]

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Serial entrepreneurs in Southern California

March 20, 2007

One thing I often hear when I talk to venture capitalists in the region, is the need to encourage serial entrepreneurs in the area–both by funding their companies, as well as finding them “the next thing” at local firms. Serial entrepreneurs — who have “done it before” are considered a precious resource here by VCs, [...]

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Techies in Tuxes

March 19, 2007

I’ve noticed a fixture of the technology blogs in Silicon Valley, which I almost never see from technology bloggers in Southern California, which are photo posts of local “tech celebrities” and local technology launch/conference parties. So, I thought I’d put some pictures up from the recent Technology Council awards to help fill in that gap. [...]

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