So two days before Christmas , he crammed himself into an airplane seat to fly east from Silicon Valley for a meeting with Lighthouse Capital Partners , a California venture firm with a branch in Cambridge , Mass. '' If I did n't get that money , we were toast , '' Mr. Hastings said .
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