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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

All attendees really did such an amazing job building out their products, talking to customers and putting on a great show of presentations. Till then — keep the ideas flowing, the customer development at full-speed and your lean cycle and iterations spinning as fast you can! What a SWLA.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. They are very hands on.