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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. Of course triangulation is a mathematics term that is used in sailing and other activities to help you better navigate when you don’t have your bearings. Draw from Frameworks. Each is a framework for thinking about a problem.

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

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I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. What about strategy?

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Develop.la | L.A.’s Own Hacker News and Why Now?

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He recently produced the Silicon Beach Fest along with Kevin Winston of Digital LA , and his mobile ad optimization and re-engagement company PageWoo came out of the 1st graduating class for the new Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (developed by serial entrepreneur of Activision fame, Howard Marks). The framework in L.A.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. I learned that I wasn’t the strongest kid in class but wasn’t a wimp either. ON SUCCESS.

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