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MAY 21, 2011

Are we headed for a long era of innovation in which startups are the new norm? In a way, startups have become kind of like the video game industry. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. And why I woke up at 4.50am. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

One the most frequent questions asked of me by entrepreneurs is, "How can I become a Venture Capitalist?" The inquiry is common because being a VC is (to an entrepreneur, at least) a sexy job. Spend as much time as possible in the company of aspiring and accomplished entrepreneurs. Microscopic Industry.

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JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. People get too worked up over the word.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. But let me start with some data. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? Andrea: At May Company, they sold me on the buying career path by saying it was like owning your own business without having to raise start-up capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. An E visa is meant for foreign investors looking to start a business in the U.S. have authored bipartisan legislation aimed at jumpstarting the economy through the creation and growth of new businesses” through the reintroduction of the Start Up Act.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. Also, since most funds are 10-year funds there will be pressure in 2012 for this fund to start exiting its investments and return money to its shareholders.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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 More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

making connections, looking for jobs, staying up on news, etc.) Since launching 2011 global membership has grown to be over 500k people actively collaborating and supporting each other to move film and television projects forward. Large studios are traditional TV networks are snapping up online content providers (e.g.,

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Notably, this was the lowest quarterly deal volume since the fourth quarter of 2011, a period spanning 19 quarters. In the early-stage category, nearly 54 percent of deals in 2016 were greater than $5 million in size, which compares to 32 percent of investments right on the heels of the Great Recession in 2010. The projected $43.2

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2016

When we first started, the largest demand was from government, particularly Mayor Greg Ballard in Indianapolis. In 2011, the on-demand category didn't exist, but in the last four years, the fleet has gone from what was 0 vehicles, to an estimate of 2 million people in the U.S. Why target the on-demand economy?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. I doubt they will ever catch up.&#. raise money now to weather any storms).

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