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A philosophy major in college then a merger and acquisitions specialist, now Bart's the Chairman of Tech Coast Venture Network, TCVN, a 20-year old networking organization based in Orange County. TCVN's purpose is to educate the startup entrepreneur and prepare them for eventual funding. At the monthly meetings topics include: VC financing, Powerpoint presentations, Bootstrapping, building your board and many other subjects critical to the startup. I was the keynote speaker back in June.

Save the date: TCVN's Survivor 3 event is set for Thursday September 27, 2007. Add to the long list of prizes, the winner will be featured as a guest on the podcast!

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Most Investment Banks are in New York and San Francisco, but southern California has one booming firm: Montgomery & Company in Santa Monica. Kevin's one of the founders, the Managing Director of Investment Banking and Co-head of Media Banking. We discuss some of the happy outcomes over the past few years including Yahoo's acquisition of MusicMatch, MySpace by Fox and others including an IPO for DivX.

As an angel investor I ask him, "Why don't we have more exits?" He doesn't hesitate with his reply.