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Here is The Best Data You’ll Find on the LA Tech Market

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As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. To mark the occasion of launching this inaugural report I am also proud to announce that we’ve also launched the Upfront Insights blog.

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Do Less. More.

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There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard.

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

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In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. Unemployment continues to rise – Unemployment as of September 2009 is 9.7% So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) but the truer number of underemployed is a whopping 16.8%!

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. in 2009 the market was completely constipated as investors focused on triage. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. I am avoiding “frenzied&# deals for all of the reasons Roger Ehrenberg talks about in his excellent blog post.

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Because the Domain Makes it Really Real

This is going to be BIG.

I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. I started a company, failed at it, and joined First Round in 2009 to help them open up their NYC office. In the middle of that whole thing, I wrote a blog post about Foursquare that a lot of people noticed.

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

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Prior to founding Equifund, Jordan founded capital markets consulting and investor relations firm Novea Capital Inc in 2009. and more articles from the EO blog. The post Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping first appeared on The EO Blog.

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