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Taiwanese reassurances that water shortages won’t hit chipmaking show climate change’s direct threat to tech

TechCrunch LA

It is complexity theory made manifest and only serves to show that scalable, data-driven solutions rapidly deployed across large industrial markets are our only hope in correcting the course,” wrote Vaughn Blake, a partner at the energy-focused investment firm Blue Bear Capital. Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015).

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Early-Stage Valuation

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 -- The San Diego Tech Coast Angels present Early-Stage Valuation. Program Overview: This interactive workshop educates and empowers angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in access to capital on a variety of ways to value pre-revenue companies. Email linda@techcoastangels.com.

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Respect Competitors and Capitalize on Your Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I hear many entrepreneurs making negative comments about competitors or asserting they don’t have any competitors. Here are my thoughts on the right steps to prepare for these discussions and how to capitalize on your strengths: Declare and file your innovations early as intellectual property.

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Preview: 500 Startups Demo Day

Tech Zulu Event

The difference here, is the quick injection of capital and guidance to create bullet train-like growth. As Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups quoted from the Economist puts it… “I’d rather get $100,000 and be a case study than pay $100,000 to read case studies.”

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

Both Sides of the Table

You want to be sure that you get customer commitments before doing the work do agree a case study afterwards if the project is successful. If asked to drop price we would often counter by agreeing to small price decreases in exchange for an agreement to do case studies to drive future business.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

You have tremendous momentum and clearly could have raised capital from a variety of sources. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels. Good ideas, great people and access to capital are key to any thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. There’s lots more info including videos, case studies and more at www.ringrevenue.com.

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