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Happy Customers Make Gender Bias (Nearly) Irrelevant

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A 2012 Dow Jones'' report entitled Women At The Wheel encompassed 15-years of data on venture-backed startups. In a similar vein, a 2012 study by the Kauffman Foundation noted that women account for only 10% of all the founders of high-tech startups. During the period studied, only "1.3%

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Interview with Scott Cannon, CEO of BigRentz

socalTECH

Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. Cloud Capital. BigRentz is based in Irvine.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. The best CEOs realize that they must transition from being individual contributors to team builders and adjudicators who settle conflicts of “resource allocations.” As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Indianapolis is the “It Place” to Start a Startup?

Tech Zulu Event

So this past October 2012, after years of investigative scientific research “ Electrified ” became a reality. There are a sea of writeboard walls with rainbow scribbles of metrics and brainstorms. Being an entrepreneur is about making a commitment no matter how painfully difficult it is to keep it.

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Interview with Cody Simms, Techstars LA

socalTECH

Those companies have raised more than $2 billion in follow on capital, and have a valuation of over $6.5 One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. Sometimes entrepreneurs ask if we need certain metrics and traction�you don't. billion combined.

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