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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. We had lamp shades on our heads, tequila in our glasses, loud music and perhaps too much sand, and burning men, and art exhibits and tres commas. It was 1991.

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

InfoChachkie

In addition, something interesting in happening in Tennessee, with the advent of hands-on venture firms like the Lamp Post Group and innovative ventures, such as PriceWaiter. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors. Bringing an accelerators’ graduates back as mentors provides value to the next class, certainly.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. Investors include Ron Conway, Ashton Kutcher, and Brian Solis. Full Disclosure: Matt works for CitizenNet.) Want to sponsor?

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