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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

Tech Zulu Event

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. But it all starts with the individual trainer for us.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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How To Snag Lunch With A High-Profile Entrepreneur

InfoChachkie

He also co-founded Genetic Finance and is a Founding Member of Change.org, a social network focused on initiating and sustaining positive social change. Benedikt''s description of his encounters with Adam is an effective primer for young entrepreneurs who want to expand their network beyond their peers. Benedikt Scholz.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development.

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Where's Waldo Panel: Finding Social Influencer's & Decreasing Your Costs Live This Thursday

Tech Zulu Event

ZexSports and PacSun are putting an amazing panel together to discuss the value of key social influencer's, where they are on your social network, and how targeting these potential brand evangelists will have a positive influence on your social media network and ROI. This Panel has gotten extreme and sold out!

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

socalTECH

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. It ran in April of 2008. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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