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JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see [link] )? Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc.

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