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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

After our meeting, I offered to allow Lisa to use Make It Work’s HQ for her upcoming classes on public speaking. We will collaborate on ideas and projects and we created the Superfriends together, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

After our meeting, I offered to allow Lisa to use Make It Work’s HQ for her upcoming classes on public speaking. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

socalTECH

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is a media and digital media entrepreneur, senior executive, negotiator and dealmaker with an unbroken track record of success in start-up and emerging growth companies, as well as major and independent media companies.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Per the email below, Jeff leveraged his discussion with the industry expert to enlist his help with future investors.