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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. Many people start companies arse backwards. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity. Every entrepreneur starts with an idea that they believe makes sense. So much so that you’re financial model 2 years out won’t resemble your starting model at all. They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. We thought we'd talk with Chris about what Jetpack is up to. We offer up customers a high impact creative which is not bounded by the box. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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

InfoChachkie

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Start – It’s The Only Way You Will Know. Mark reinforced this message by telling the students, “I didn’t start young enough. I started at 31. The reality is, most startups do not work.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. The new stuff: How do I get started? The advantage of the hosted version is that it’s easier to get started. Slice it up enough to do many posts. Some search.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

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Tealium Adds $35M to Expand Technology, Sharpen Customer Focus

Xconomy

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. For us, it’s never been about tags or Javascript. It’s been about data.