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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

socalTECH

One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. We've spent the time to find the experts, scouting out the best bloggers and others who know the community, for our reviews.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets. Year in, year out.

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Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage

SoCal Delicious

Also, as any changes to each login will be handled by JanRain, you wont have to keep updating your authentication code if changes are made by the login provider. Now click the "Generate Code" button. Youll be given two code snippets that look something like this: This code should go immediately before the tag.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. The first round of pitches are due this week. “We need new safety measures that don’t slow us down.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Then came blogs. We have it to filter blog comments.

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