Clearstone Venture Partners
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Clearstone Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica, CA, Menlo Park, CA, and Mumbai, India. Clearstone was an early investor in such well known companies as PayPal, NetZero, Overture, and CarsDirect. The firm has $650 million under management and is investing in its third fund in seed and early stage companies in the United States and India.
Managing Directors include Bill Elkus, Jim Armstrong, William Quigley, and Sumant Mandal.
If you go to The MBA Podcast you will find an interview with William. This is an unique opportunity to get some insights from the VC who backed PayPal among other very successful ventures! In this talk, he covers everything an Entrepreneur needs to know before presenting a business plan to a potential investor and, in the end, he even tells how the initial idea for PayPal was born!
