By Semil Shah Nearly five years ago, reporter Kara Swisher labeled Michael Dearing the “hottest angel investor you’ve never heard of.” Things haven’t changed much. Dearing, a former senior VP at eBay who joined Stanford’s faculty in 2006 as a consulting associate professor (he also teaches off campus), has quietly backed a long string of […]
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VC Erik Rannala on the “More Cautious” L.A Startup Scene
L.A. has been receiving a lot of attention from investors lately, as local venture capitalist Mark Suster enthusiastically observed in a detailed overview of the market yesterday. Indeed, as Suster noted, SVAngel’s David Lee and early Twitter investor Chris Sacca are among a small but growing number of investors who’ve relocated to L.A. to capture its […]