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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

socalTECH

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). This is not a typical, venture capital investment. Those $60M rounds really don't fit the venture capital model.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 portfolios. Do so at your peril.

Web 2.0 334
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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

Both Sides of the Table

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) The problem with the TechCrunch bounce was that it often led the the TechCrunch free fall, as in your website’s precipitous decline in traffic and your products fall in users as that same 60-70,000 rushed to try the next product.

Blogging 309
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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

If these numbers work out, then often scaling is more a question of capital. I'm not quite sure I believe the way he exactly models the value from each of these points as is shown in the following graphic, but a similar kind of model can certainly be developed. You only build what you need to prove that model.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Zondigo, Inc.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

We caught on with the right product, at the right time. You need a CDN to improve the performance of your content, especially as the web is getting heavier, more complicated, and there's more rich media. You have to be able to be disruptive to existing products and services. Really, it's just another source of capital.

CTO Hire 248