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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Why do VC’s care about these years? ’ Our Net Income will be $40 million.&#.

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Southern California Leads In Green Businesses, Says Report

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A new report released today by Next 10 , a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy group, says that Southern California--and California, as a whole--leads the green innovation, cleantech venture capital, and energy market. billion invested in cleantech venture capital in the state since 2006.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California.

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Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

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VC Funding Alternative. During late 2006 I helped the CEO of RedMojo sell his company to Novell. Our BATNA to a sale was to accept funding from venture capitalists.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

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AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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I backburnered the concept until 2006, and in May of 2006 put the business together. Kelly Tompkins: Yes, in 1998, there was Away.com, iExplore, and there was significant venture capital thrown at that segment. I personally enjoy traveling, and looking at the space from a technology automation perspective.

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