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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. Definitely was a helpful talk and seemed to really made a huge difference — we’re very lucky to have Tyler here in the community and drop by.

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

Both Sides of the Table

His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? They are very hands on.

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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 ). They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo!