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Writing Your Press Releases

SoCal Tech Calendar

Friday, November 14, 2008 -- "Writing Your Press Releases" SDSIC. If you're writing your press releases like it was still 1994, you're not maximizing the value of this tool in this Internet-centric age. will educate us on the new things happening in online media relations and PR. See [link] (more).

Press 100
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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

socalTECH

Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. If I write about online education, I''ll see 25 online education plans. What''s enabled the firm to raise this fund, at the same size of your last fund?

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Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms

socalTECH

Later, when I was in the tax business at Intuit and H&R Block, running those businesses, every year we had to hire a couple hundred tax professionals, who had to unwind the tax code, and who had to write it all down to give again to developers, in order for them to interpret and provide a usable product to consumers.

Startup 150
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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Crazy, huh?

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

Both Sides of the Table

Even if one disagrees with the premise, why would anyone feel the need to attack Mike for writing it? Everybody knows a quick $50k write-off is easy, better, faster than the alternatives and better to focus your limited time on finding the next great team to back. I simply want founders to be educated on the topic to be helpful.

Angel 150
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Where's Waldo Panel: Finding Social Influencer's & Decreasing Your Costs Live This Thursday

Tech Zulu Event

Lucky is a hybrid – half agency/half production company that writes, directs and produces viral films and branded content. . Emily Goligoski is a Strategic Programs Manager with online publishing company Federated Media’s and writes about arts, culture and design innovation. Cameron Olthius 5ones.com. . Greg Cargill bigMETHOD.com.

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

Both Sides of the Table

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. It basically boils down to: educate, entertain, have a dialog, don’t be boring and don’t sit on large panels (doh!).