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How I Promise You One of the Most Meaningful Days of Your Life

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On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I am committed to finding ways to help graduates get jobs.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO. How’s that for an ex painter?

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

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Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. It is this reminder that helps me form my internal compass and not hide behind a fortress. Happy 2012 to all of you.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8 billion by 2014.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle.

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From Nothing to Something with Howard Marks & Nanxi Liu

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My job is to help you not get a job,” Marks announced. LA is up and coming and is a great place to be because everybody is helping each other out. It was the morning of June 26th, 2012. As a young entrepreneur, you get introduced to mentors and successful entrepreneurs on a daily basis who want to help you.

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

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Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. We write and create our own content for the game. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Event Details.

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