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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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Of course, not all VCs are like that, and I've started some good relationships with them, but others are complete a**holes. Sending the zeros and ones into the air was the same and sending nutrients into your mitochondria, except that at Visalus, it was not capital intensive like it was at SkyPipeline. That's my basic method to mayhem.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” And of course it’s not a true assessment. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.