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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025. There's a tightness which is squeezing the lifeblood from the entrepreneurs, even as it remains an amazing place. You want those investors to be local.

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Statistically, you are 10x more likely to get hired through a referral by an employee than a non-referral. Your finance has to be world class.

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Why You Shouldn’t Be Fooled by Your Own Expertise

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I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. I wrote about these experiences 7 years ago in a post I titled “ 73.6%

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

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But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.

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8 Reasons To Promote Corporate Social Responsibility

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Social contribution and sustainability are features that appeal to a whole new class of customers for any solution. Incents customers to pay a premium price. Sustainability and social responsibility are ways to extend your exclusivity and added value, thus lowering risk, improving profitability, and justifying a premium price.

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

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Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works? One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company. We track certain statistics, including checklist items and usage. We have patents filed on this process.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? But there are plenty of partners and successful entrepreneurs who don’t have MBAs. What about strategy?

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