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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

Our technology, instead of having your remember a password, instead has you remember three categories of images. It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. That might be a car, boat, or an airplane.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My was starting.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We give them options and advice on the best course to reach their goals, such as responding quickly and getting to market faster. We're also growing and hiring.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories. Subscribe to RSS.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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In a recent interview, Goldenberg stated that the online apparel market was a “bigger than $100 billion” business and that his company and others like it were poised to “take market share from traditional retailers”. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector.