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1 Twitter Tip You Can Fix Straight Away

Both Sides of the Table

If you search for her (as of July 10, 2009 at 5:45pm) you will get no result and the text, “did you mean Amanda Choong?&#. And write a short bio about yourself. Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter. It takes a while (a day or more) to get your name propagated in Twitter’s search index.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more

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Interview with Gregg Champion, OneCubicle

socalTECH

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site? Our demographic is the 22 to 32 year old.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

socalTECH

Scott Lahman: When we first put it out in early 2009, free texting was just a huge offering. Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet. Those are almost like little social networks built around a topic. If you think that it is easy, however, you'll be disappointed.

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Angel Funding Advice

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The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Most people don’t love networking.

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