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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

TechCrunch LA

The former President of ExactTarget and later chief executive of Salesforce Marketing Cloud has made billions of dollars building products to help support customer service and now he’s back at it again with his latest venture MetaCX. Especially since the round was led by the Los Angeles-based venture firm Upfront Ventures.

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

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There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. When I meet other VCs I’m constantly asking how they decide which investments to make, when to pass, when to do follow-on rounds, when to sell a company vs. when to go long, etc. What is a founder to do?

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Announcing The socalTECH 50, 2015 Edition

socalTECH

The socalTECH 50 is aimed at identifying and highlighting the top 50 people in the technology industry here, who are most likely to create the next big thing, produce the next big exit, or influence the industry in a significant way. Joe Devon , CTO Mixers. Congratulations to our third class of the socalTECH 50! READ MORE>>.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Today I’m handing her the largest A-round check I’ve ever written as a VC as we lead her $10 million A-Round at uBeam. As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

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Stuart is well worth following on Twitter & now that’s he’s a VC he is likely to share his wisdom more freely. And the fact that we’ve all worked for a decade with Dana Kibler who is our long-time CFO and now helping run Investment Operations & Platform Services we have a truly senior & killer internal team.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Your goal should be to turn your VCs into extended members of your team to get real value from them. Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. What Rob wrote in his post is right.

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With $4.5M in Funding Wearable IoT World Launches U.S.-Pan Asia IoT Superhighway Accelerator

Tech Zulu Event

Wearable IoT World (WIoTW), based in San Francisco and heralded as the world’s first accelerator dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables and emerging technologies, today has officially launched the U.S.-Pan Pan Asia IoT Superhighway accelerator in Hong Kong. Closing a round of USD 4.5

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