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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurs typically embrace celebrity investments, while most sophisticated investors prefer to avoid famous entertainment or sports personalities on the cap table. Celebrity investors aside, I am a fan of high net worth individuals who are willing to allocate some of their risk capital to foster a startup''s success.

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

InfoChachkie

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. In the last six weeks, I have been pitched by five entrepreneurs under 20. free weekly Infochachkie articles! The youngest was 15.

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Interview with Tony Farwell, GovX

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Our interview this morning is with serial entrepreneur Tony Farwell , the Executive Chairman and co-founder of GovX (www.govx.com), a San Diego-based online marketplace aimed at current members of the military, veterans, and government employees, including first responders, police, and others. We are close to 2 million members.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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The net of it, is we're really in the big data business, and we're taking what was formerly a totally monolithic piece--a single DVD, or video game, or sports game--and converting that into something that is consumable in the social web. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). before which is second-time entrepreneurs. What is happening in L.A.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)

Both Sides of the Table

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. The net result of my posts plus the comments forms a tighter view of my evolving belief system. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis. Life is complex.

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