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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. The reason is that like Hollywood these seem to require large up-front investments and seem to be hit driven. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

Yes the real Oscars were also on this past Sunday but if you’re in LA or Hollywood, you wouldn’t be tuning into anything but Startup Weekend LA). 2nd place went to MarkedUp that helps mobile developers collect and organize visual feedback from their beta testers and users ( markedup.mobi ). Thanks again Tyler Crowley!

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Hollywood has even made a movie about the founding of Facebook that glamorizes startup life instead of showing what it really is: a day in day out marathon of work with very little glamor. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). What went wrong?