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Flinja Launches At DEMO

socalTECH

The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford. Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine effort.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number of investor classes into one. These include Y-Combinator and TechStars, among others.

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Does your business need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number investor classes into one. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner.

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Startup Lessons From The Beatles’ Biggest Failure

InfoChachkie

Most groups would have returned to Liverpool and continued to play occasional gigs while beginning their working class careers. Wrong Expectations - According to John Lennon, "I think Decca expected us to be all polished, we were just doing a demo.". Fortunately, the Beatles were not "most groups.". Failure Wasn't In Their Songbook.

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Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. I wrote separately about that here – regarding “hiring people who punch above their weight class.” And that leads me to today’s post.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

I attended the Facebook Fund Demo day about a month ago in Palo Alto and it blew me away the pace of innovation and the focus on monetization that came out of this group. There has already been at least one high profile funding from this class, which is Thread – a product that raised $1.2 This is one book-end of the cycle.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. to actionable user feedback, "Just went through the demo. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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