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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He wanted to raise angel money. If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? It was May.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. He has also sailed a boat across the Atlantic.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

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Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. We can bring in a clip, cleared in about eight hours.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

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This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge.