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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

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As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. In the last six weeks, I have been pitched by five entrepreneurs under 20. Learn HTML. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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The service was created by experience serial entrepreneurs Mark Sylvester and KymberleeWeil, who some might know from creating service introNetworks. We're entrepreneurs, and we like to build our business, and wish we were known a little more. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. They are big, private communities.

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Angel Funding Advice

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I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. In most cases if you can’t get a prototype done you’re probably not an entrepreneur. Surround yourself with great advisors or other entrepreneurs. Most people are not entrepreneurs. But for most businesses it is.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. When I hear entrepreneurs say that they’re kicking around ideas with friends I ask, “have you legally registered a company?&# Putting your thoughts into spreadsheets, PowerPoint, HTML, etc. Register a company. You will confirm that later on.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation.