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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. It's a great talk. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. Social networking sites, and even the general enterprise has need for this.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 3: Competition. Page 4: Business Model.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5