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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. In fact, HAVE done so.

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Media Temple Debuts Premium Support, Managed Hosting Services

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However, the firm is looking to further differentiate itself in a crowded hosting market through its services. The Los Angeles company said Tuesday that it has launched two offerings, CloudTech Premium Support, and upgraded its DV Managed service.

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SPONSOR POST: Southern California Technology Firms Are Hiring

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Slow job market? Not in Southern California's technology market! Recent job postings on the site: LAMP/Perl Developers , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Recent job postings on the site: LAMP/Perl Developers , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Manager, Analytics , Los Angeles, Oversee.net.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the largest player has < 10% market share. years of software development.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Qtee: “We’re the Nike ID of the Fashion World”

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Using the same custom tech base as our parent company, Lamps Plus, we adapted, modified and tweaked it to bring a unique twist to custom fashion. Greek Licensing for the sorority market. We like to think of ourselves as the NIKEiD of the fashion world.”. The customization process is incredibly straightforward too. CoolHaus Ice Cream.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

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With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Are there inherent risks in taking angel money? Many angels were forced to fold given their tremendous losses in real estate and the stock market.