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Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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Social Media Faking It – Cheaper Than You May Think, But Still Not Worth It

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If you buy in bulk, the price of 1,000 Twitter followers is about $1.75. Not surprisingly, Steve''s tagline for his PR firm is "Content Is The Currency Of The Social Web." In addition to high-tech tools, there are variety of common sense ways to assess the veracity of someone''s social media empire. The Cost Of Fake Fame.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

InfoChachkie

Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. These two areas of operational innovation allowed Dell to defeat a number of tech-centric competitors which spent significant money researching and developing technological features, ever briefer product lifecycles. Look around.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

After a few years at “tech guy” I became frustrated that I was always relegated to solving just technical problems and I longed to be involved in the executive suite. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. You’re a tech guy. We take MBAs.

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

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I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.