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Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?

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The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. She encouraged me to take acting classes as a child, which gave me confidence as a public speaker. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 I plan to write about this phenomenon soon.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Traditional software vs. SaaS. Neither class of people should give up easily. and I realized that without years of experience it is tough to answer this question. Most VCs are book smart. Think of web vs. mobile.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

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John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. What was nice was that I got to take some of my practical skills from consulting and apply them into class discussions with operational leaders. I could become the SaaS guy. Branded again.

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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

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We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social. It's all about what is happening on the realtime web. How did you figure out people needed and wanted this?

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Signal Sciences: Protecting Web Apps In The Era Of DevOps, with Andrew Peterson

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Andrew Peterson: We've been really lucky to have a lot of investors who have great experience in working with both SaaS companies, and especially, security. Not to plug myself, but I've done some writing and published a book with O'Reilly, talking about security misconceptions. Let's talk about your funding.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. From day one we focused on customers.