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

Both Sides of the Table

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Women 2.0 Conference 2012 | For The Men Who Missed It

Tech Zulu Event

It was a tough judging panel indeed as we watched McClure grill the girls behind Perfect Beauty , a niche ecommerce website for beauty products and interaction, followed three other eager pitches. Hunt strives to improve product search with crowdsourcing through product questions, comments, and reviews. likely relate to.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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How to Talk to a Journalist When You Only Have 30 Seconds

Tech Zulu Event

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 1 Pre Planning. 5 Be intentional.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Windows 8 is ‘the end of Windows’ October 19, 2012 11:44 AM.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.