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		<title>Happy Holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was somewhat of a bittersweet moment last night when one of my readers somehow tracked me down through my &#8220;bat email&#8221; last night to see why I haven&#8217;t posted in awhile.  Leaving aside how this person found me, I thought I&#8217;d write a bit today.
First and foremost, happy holidays to all.  Enjoy this time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ocvcblog.com/2009/12/17/happy-holidays-2/</link>
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		<title>Water, water everywhere&#8230;but not many investments there.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking at the &#8220;water sector&#8221; (broadly defined) for awhile now but haven&#8217;t seen many investments being done thus far&#8230; so I was pleased to see fellow local VC, SAIL Ventures, announce that they recently made such an investment.  In fact, I reached out to Walter Schindler and asked him to send me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ocvcblog.com/2009/11/13/water-water-everywherebut-not-many-investments-there/</link>
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		<title>Open Letter to Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am writing to you today as a concerned citizen with a truly global perspective who also happens to be a co-founder and managing director of a small (~$30M) venture capital fund that invests in promising seed and early-stage technology and life science companies in Southern California.  I want to relay to you my deep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ocvcblog.com/2009/09/15/open-letter-to-congress/</link>
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		<title>Despite the Odds&#8230;My Damn Channel Continues to Deliver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the odds, My Damn Channel continues to produce the goods and prove just what a &#8220;small, extremely focused, capital efficient rebel-media-army&#8221; can do&#8230;even in a downturn of today&#8217;s magnitude.  If you aren&#8217;t already hip to the MDC crew, check &#8216;em out at www.mydamnchannel.com.  If you like what you see, please make sure to spread [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ocvcblog.com/2009/09/14/despite-the-oddsmy-damn-channel-continues-to-deliver/</link>
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		<title>Disintermediation Downside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that know me, you know I have always been a big fan of disintermediation (i.e. removing the middleman or intermediary) - both from a cost reduction perspective as well as from an operational efficiency perspective.  In fact, I am always intrigued by start-ups claiming to truly disintermediated an industry in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ocvcblog.com/2009/09/09/disintermediation-downside/</link>
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