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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

Both Sides of the Table

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Why I’d Rather Err on the Side of Direct Feedback Than Pleasantries

Both Sides of the Table

A few weeks ago I was reading a blog post by MG Siegler that really struck a chord. In today’s economy it is counter productive because the best employees have options.” I then asked for editing rights to his Google Doc and I rewrote a version of it. It’s counter productive. You get argued with.

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Entrepreneurs Needed to Keep Web 3.0 From Fading

Startup Professionals Musings

Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Consumers are surfing the Web, purchasing products, and becoming instant photo journalists from their iPhone and Blackberry. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net.

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Five Clues To Web 3.0 Opportunities Here Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Consumers are surfing the Web, purchasing products, and becoming instant photo journalists from their iPhone and Blackberry. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

He blogs here and tweets here. a network of widely read blogs including Engadget – ranked # 1 by Technorati, Joystiq, Autoblog, and Blogging Baby. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc. as a senior vice president of AOL.

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Announcing Projector?—?A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years

Both Sides of the Table

We had met previously when Trevor was a product manager at YouTube and Upfront had funded the largest video producer on YouTube, Maker Studios. They had worked together as senior product manager and senior engineering leads at Twitter and identified a problem they saw in visual communication of information.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Innovation in the end is about creating products, but largely the federal government doesn't make products; it buys them. So it may be fair to posit that after most of the research and discovery happens, people in the government wonder why it takes so long – and costs so much – to get a prototype or a finished product.