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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

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Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) and Petri was co-founder and head of creative at Remedy Entertainment that launched the hit PC games Max Payne and Alan Wake. They also had much experience before that.

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What Do Boards Actually Do?

Both Sides of the Table

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

The project ultimately imploded due to a combination of factors. An emerging tech dystopia. However, Tushnet argues that the use of the blockchain alone isn’t enough to solve the pressing legal questions over derivative works. We’re still in incredibly early days for this technology,” said Federa.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. I want to know how many people, their level of tech sophistication, their age and their interests. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them.

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