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UCI Entrepreneurship: Milton Chang, Incubic

SoCal Tech Calendar

Managing Director, Incubic Management (a venture capital fund in Mountain View, CA). Entrepreneurship Course, 2012 Guest Speaker Lectures, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine. Tuesday, January 24, 2012 -- Milton Chang, Ph.D., Free and open to the public.

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When VCs Play Defense

Both Sides of the Table

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. Before skimmers race to the comments or Twitter to complain – I’m not saying intro’s aren’t valuable – of course they are.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. Oh, and did I mention that their users have mapped 35,000 courses in 127 countries? One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. Of course not.

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Interview with Oded Vakrat, Earny

socalTECH

They then register with us, and give their email provider permission to give us access to a cop of their receipts. Once it's in our system, we will monitor priecs for 90 days, and when prices drop we either email the retailer you purchased from on your behalf, or we will go and claim that difference from the credit card company.

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Inspiring College Entrepreneurship | With lessons from Y Combinator and Elon Musk

Tech Zulu Event

The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more. What is LavaLab/what is the vision? What is LavaLab/what is the vision?

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Turning Thoughts into Productivity | The Fetchnotes Story

Tech Zulu Event

We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. And of course, one day, the Blackberry dies and erases everything. We text, email, share, and post these quick to consume pieces of media. Which of course, is a much more ephemeral mode of communication than email. “ Yes and no.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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