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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

socalTECH

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects. They'll just keep getting it.

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When VCs Play Defense

Both Sides of the Table

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. I’ve been told so. Not the Dave I know.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. The emails were so tailored, that many merchants called back to thank them for the personal attention.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. However Gmail is only private email conversations. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Kanye West. Some have made the model work.

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Want to Work in VC? Here’s How

Both Sides of the Table

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Please do not email either me or Michael directly.