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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m of the fund.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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SendMeHome Gets Social

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based startup SendMeHome.com , which provides a free service to help people retrieve their lost items, has launched a new social feature the firm says will help connect people through objects. The new features take advantage of the site's identification labels to tie in text and photos to physical items. READ MORE>>.

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

InfoChachkie

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. That was the implicit statement. Ten year later… (we know that) startups are not smaller versions of large companies.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

socalTECH

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. What areas you personally are looking at right now?

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

InfoChachkie

You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea. Also, when you become super, super successful and you want to write your book, it''s helpful!".