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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

One of the firm’s more infamous marketing stunts was their 2011 music video, entitled I’m A VC. We write blogs, we do music videos, we show up, we engage with people…we love our product. Write Your Own Playbook. If you have ever dealt with pretentious investors, you may pull a muscle laughing. We have never done a press release.

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Trade Show Guerilla Marketing – Booth Babes With Beards

InfoChachkie

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. However at the 2011 Hospitality Conference, he allowed his desire to make an impact impair his reasoning when he hired a band of masked parcours. Share and Enjoy.

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How To Become a VC

InfoChachkie

All you need do to become an Angel is identify a promising venture and write a check. According to the NVCA, only 45 first-time funds were launched in 2011. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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Aaron Swartz | A Stranger in a Strange Land

Tech Zulu Event

At 14, he became a co-editor for the spec responsible for RSS technology. This group was responsible in leading the successful campaign against Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ), a bill introduced in the US House of Rep in 2011, which was created to restrict access to websites that illegally shared copyrighted property.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch. Thank you eMinutes.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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