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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Your favorite investor told you this was a bad idea. Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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Lessons Learned From The Accelerator Trenches: MuckerLab's Erik Rannala

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When a company either has revenues, if that''s the primary metric, or if it''s a consumer application, high user acquisition and engagement, we know there is some degree of product-market-fit. An idea, prototype, customers, where? I think to be best positioned, a company should be more than an idea on the napkin. READ MORE>>.

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Interesting Model for University President

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Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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However, on the other hand, some ideas are more sensitive than others especially in the development phase, and an entrepreneur should be careful to disclose the idea only to those in whom he/she has a reasonable level of trust and who are genuinely in a position to help the company. Sounds like a great group. How did you do that?

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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

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If anyone has ideas on how to reach into to find candidates or other ways to find good people, I would love to hear it. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Scott has this obsession.

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