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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

Both Sides of the Table

In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. Stay young.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post? Disruptive. We get it!

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Some Perspective on Twitter vs. Meerkat

Both Sides of the Table

I ran a VC AMA (ask me anything) last Monday on Meerkat and had > 1,000 simultaneous people asking me questions. Some smart people whom I like & respect started to weigh in publicly. They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. love Twitter. YnJM8aeru9.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. Meetup – My personal experience has been mixed with these.

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Crowdfunding an HIV Vaccine: Dr. Rubsamen of Immunity Project

Tech Zulu Event

With a clean startup-reminiscent website, successful crowdfunding campaign, YC backing, and even a high traffic Reddit AMA thread hosted by Dr. Rubsamen himself, it has been clear from the start there’s something unique about this project. Something else I learned from the Reddit AMA. People are intrinsically smart.

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Products I Love to Use

Both Sides of the Table

What a saver to be able to read articles vs. some stupid flight magazine and I gave up playing games on my phone years ago. I get an alert when the order is received, when the kitchen has received it, when the driver has picked it up and when the driver is near. I’ll respond and / or edit my list when I wake up.

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. Big ups to the Twitch.TV