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Interview with Derek Norton, Watertower Ventures

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Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note:

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place. So, by pushing these job opportunities quickly to people, through a text, or email, as they occur, they have the opportunity to take their resume and quickly go to the top of the pile.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

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It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital.

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Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop - Initial Business Models Can Be Enticing But Limiting In The Long Run

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They often identify expeditious ways to make money in the early days of their adVentures, which allow them to reduce the amount of capital they must raise from outside investors. They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. From day one we focused on customers.

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TechZulu Partners with meebo!

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You can post TechZulu content directly to Facebook, Twitter, email or IM. If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. Also, with the meebo bar comes meebo chat.

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