Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Clean up your own shite. Ok. I know that the tone of the title and post will seem a bit aggressive for a post from a venture capitalist on fund raising. It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I learned all of this myself on your side of the table raising money at my first company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Break Media , the online operator of a network of sites focused on men, announced Friday morning that it has launched a new division focused on CPA, performance marketing. Break Media said that Apogee Media Network will focus on customer acquisition, email marketing, and social media for advertisers, on a CPA-basis. Break said it soft-launched the division in January.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2010

Let me illustrate this insight with a personal story. As my enterprise computer software company which produced innovative lodging systems for hotels and resorts grew quickly, we found ourselves straining to keep up with the hiring and training of good customer support representatives, a critical part of the equation then and still so today in the 24 hour environment of hotel front desk operations.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 12, 2010

Now Syndicating Nationally. Today, Make It Work entered into a national syndication agreement with Envision Radio. “ Make It Work &# (with Jeremy Anticouni), currently a one hour show on KSFO 560am in San Francisco, will be converted to a two hour show for Envision and will begin airing on stations throughout the country, in addition to KSFO. Make It Work Media, a division of Make It Work, Inc., will produce the tech news radio program and Envision Radio will distribute the show to its net

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Advertiser: Aggregage

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

Company

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. He’s considering making me the permanent co-host so if you enjoy any of this episode or want to see me on the show on a more regular basis please Tweet @jason and let him know (he asked for direct feedback). I’m loving doing the show and I think that Jason and I have pretty good banter and rapport.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. What is Gloss Network? Lolita Carrico: After I sold ModernMom last year to Demand Media and Richard Rosenblatt, which they merged into Brook Burke's company, BabooshBaby.com, I stay

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 15, 2010

Bob Greenberg Health Care Reform. Love it or hate it, health care reform is now the law. While it will be months (or years) before we know the full impact of the historic passage of the bill, we do know the outlines of some of what will happen. Total costs are estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to be approximately $1 Trillion over ten years, while other commentators expect the cost to be as high as $2.6 Trillion.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2010

Filters are a thing of the past when you have "Digital Intuition". No longer will you need to check mark those boxes on what you have interest in. With my6sense they simply want you to plug in your streams and let it do the work for you. my6sense intelligently filters your content from Twitter, Facebook and RSS streams according to your online behavior.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M received in the region in Q1 of 2009.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 10, 2010

Friday, April 16, 2010 -- Linked in Live Los Angeles. BizSoMe Seminar LinkedIn has more than 61 million users, Facebook over 300 million, and Twiter amassed over 21 million unique visitors in February of 2010, but how does this afect your business? Do you need to be part of the Social Media trend? Can you use social media efectvely to promote your business?

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 11, 2010

As computing has transformed from a cold calculator to the facilitator of communication between people, it has simultaneously morphed from an end times fall guy to a cuddly lapdog and companion, at least for now.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

Corporate sustainability is now being seen as a moral imparative. GreenNurture is the maker of an application that helps employees contribute to the sustainability for their employers. Based on the popularity of rewards systems and social networking of late, GreenNurture gives people incentives to help save energy and precious resources. GreenNurture has the ability for its users to watch their companies become greener as time goes by.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Irvine-based WebVisible has released its latest quarterly advertising report, saying this morning that Bing's share of the search spending market was up 10 percent in Q1 over the previous quarter, and that the average small business advertisers spent $2,201 in search advertising in Q1. The firm--which has begun tracking trends in its U.S. advertising clients--found in its report that interest in Bing has increased from its small business advertisers, due to high click through rates and lower cos

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 16, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 2010 -- Digital LA. Celebrate Earth Day on Earth Day by seeing OCEANS at the El Capitan Theatre on opening night! We just reserved a block of 14 VIP tickets, (Row F, center orchestra!) at 9:35p opening night (the show is almost sold out)! Our VIP tickets include no waiting, reserved seating, popcorn and a drink. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2010

I know some entrepreneurs with successful businesses, and others who seem to have a great relationship with their family, but I can’t think of many who have both. Some people would argue that these two successes are mutually exclusive, but I’m not convinced. Individually, they both take focus, commitment, and a variety of skills, all the strengths of a good entrepreneur.

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Daradiction

APRIL 16, 2010

Honored to be included in this list! 10-entrepreneurs-changing-the-way-government-works. Tags: Capitalism Ethics and Social Justice Technology.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Launchpad LA , the startup mentoring effort spearheaded by GRP Partners' Mark Suster, is announcing this afternoon that it has selected 10 startups for the second season of the program. According to the group, it has selected AccessDNA , AwesomeBox , Circle Street , DataPop , Gendai Games , Gyroscope Technologies , Laughstub , MovieClips.com , Para Ti Novia , and ShopNation as participants in its six-month long program, which connects startup entrepreneurs with venture capitali

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 16, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents: Build Native Mobile Apps Using Your Web Skills. Appcelerators Titanium platform translates your hard won web skills into native mobile applications that perform and look just like they were written in Objective-C [iPhone] or Java [Android]  but using your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills. With over 300 APIs, a thriving developer community, and the support you need, you can build applications that are more social, local, media rich, interactive,

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2010

Even though the world is getting smaller, due to easy global connectivity, people still feel alone if not well-connected locally. There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community is spawning a new breed of startups. At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2010

This past Monday, April 12 2010, Network Hippo relaunched their site to the public. Network Hippo is a social CRM that simplifies and organizes a users contacts across multiple social networks. Currently Network Hippo allows you to sync up with Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and linkedIn. Once you have synced all your contacts you are able to merge data across all networks and organize them within groups.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2010

Jason West and Vince Zampella, the developer of video game Call of Duty and co-founder ofs Infinity Ward, have set up shop as Respawn Entertainment , and inked a deal with Electronic Arts to distribute its games. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. West and Zampella--who are in the midst of a nasty legal fight with former employer Activision--did not disclose what titles it might be working on, but said that it is now hiring a team of designers, artists, and engineers for the new ven

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 16, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 2010 -- CONNECT Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Join CONNECT for our prestigious Hall of Fame Luncheon honoring computer software pioneer and philanthropist Peter Preuss. Hall of Fame brings together San Diegos biotech and high tech leaders and educators to honor individuals who have achieved distinction in their career for founding, leading or advancing a San Diego life sciences or technology-based business or organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2010

The best survival guides tell you how to be proactive and avoid the probabilities of ending up in a worse case scenario. Of course you need to learn how to recognize a bad situation before it bites you, and you need to know all the secret ways to wiggle your way out, before you succumb. The challenges stem from the simple fact that every entrepreneur is starting something new, where things are predictably unpredictable.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2010

Powered by DealPerk.com. Listed below are some of the top picks from CheapCheapCheap.com , a bargain hunting webpage based out of Southern California, CA. Offers typically don't last long - either they run out of stock, or they change the prices due to high demand! Act quickly if you're interested, or you may be too late. Games. For a few days only, Steam has the Alien vs Predators Classic 2000 for $2.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

In a new twist on the use of 3D, virtual avatar software, Aliso Viejo-based Darwin Dimensions. the company behind the Evolver avatar creation software, is powering an online website where people can preview custom-designed tattoos on their bodies. According to Australian firm Obsessive Ink , it has launched a web site where users can preview a 3D, virtual representation of a tattoo on their body, using Evolver's 3D technology.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 16, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 2010 -- Startup Venture Summit. Learn how to successfully launch your own business for any sector; including tech, consumer brands and products, retail and web commerce, and home based business. Meet angel investors informally over lunch and also pitch to our panel of judges to hear feedback. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2010

A term I’m hearing more and more these days is “social entrepreneur.” In the simplest of terms, these are people who seek to generate “social value”, rather than profits, and use traditional business principles to create and manage a venture to make social change. On the surface, this sounds like entrepreneurs who want to build a non-profit organization.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 13, 2010

Gwabbit did it again and took home yet another DEMOgod award with their new product the Gwab-o-Sphere. The Gwab-o-sphere is an "automatic contact cloud" according to CEO Todd Miller. What the service does is synchronizes the contacts you have across your phones and social networks and puts them in an easy to use contact database. Storing all your contacts in the cloud with Gwab-o-sphere allows them to offer its users a backup of all their contacts in case they lose their mobile device.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker.com , the online video programming guide firm headed by former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone, has raised an additional $2.0M in its Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. Source of the additional funds was not disclosed. Clicker had announced in February that it had received $11M from JAFCO Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 15, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 -- Build vs Buy. TechbizConnection. With every new project comes the big question: Should you develop a solution from scratch or buy something off the shelf? With offshoring, custom solutions became much more cost effective, but at the expense of increased management or sometimes increased project failure risk. In todays world and current economic state, much has changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

So Twitter is buying and building Twitter clients. I don’t find this surprising at all. In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating. I said in the following video that I thought Twitter would by Seesmic , the company that makes one of the most popular Twitter clients. (If you’re interested you can watch my comments by fast forwarding to minute 31.25 and listening for about 90 seconds.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking web site MySpace has linked with Microsoft on the launch of Microsoft's new social networking-focused cell phones, the Kin 1 and the Kin 2. MySpace is one of social networking sites with built-in support on Microsoft's new phones. Microsoft announced the launch of the two phones this morning, saying that the phones will be available exclusively through Verizon.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 15, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 -- Partners in Discovery: Creating the Future of Medicine The Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative. Scientists from two of the nations premier research institutions have joined forces to answer fundamental questions of science and improve cancer and diabetes treatment for the future. Join us for an enlightening evening as two teams of researchers talk about their projects under the Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2010

Entrepreneurship is not a job for the Lone Ranger. Every startup requires building and maintaining effective relationships with people, including partners, team members, customers, and investors. That means giving and asking for feedback, and learning from it, especially negative feedback. “Friction” is feedback mixed with emotion, making it all the more difficult to sort out the value.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

Before I start writing this review, I want to say how much I appreciate the web series' nominated for Streamy Awards. This review is not a reflection on the talents and abilities of those who pour so many hours and dollars into their passion projects. Nor is this a review of the show's hosts, Tubefilter , NewTeeVee or the IAWTV. Hard work went into this awards' show and these people are doing something risky by putting on the Streamys.

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