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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

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Android Founder on VR, Voice & the Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

Xconomy

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices. On Tuesday, Miner spoke at a mobile software developer conference in Boston organized by Facebook, part of the city’s HUBweek festival.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

socalTECH

I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. I decided to move down here for the weather, plus my wife is an actress.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. They all were very different companies.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 There are many service providers such as software developers who will not work for equity unless an investment has been made by an institutional fund. million for each year he worked at the start-up.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 There are many service providers such as software developers who will not work for equity unless an investment has been made by an institutional fund. million for each year he worked at the start-up.

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