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5 Common Misconceptions of Web Design: Insights from the Yoga Sutras

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If you are not flexing your digital muscle, your competition certainly is. Asmita’s are challenging for a web designer; anyway you move you will be damned. Hopefully there will be a few existing design elements that can be salvaged. Web Design Web Design Misconceptions Yoga Sutras Steve Jobs Yoga Yoga Sutra'

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5 Common Misconceptions of Web Design: Insights from the Yoga Sutras

From the Venture Trenches

If you are not flexing your digital muscle, your competition certainly is. Asmita’s are challenging for a web designer; anyway you move you will be damned. Hopefully there will be a few existing design elements that can be salvaged. Web Design Web Design Misconceptions Yoga Sutras Steve Jobs Yoga Yoga Sutra'

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Silicon Beach's Hidden Advantage: More Talent?

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One service provider mentioned that--despite the appeal of a big exit--nowadays, offers from the big Internet companies are so attractive that good employees aren''t willing to take the traditional lower salaries in exchange for a small piece of equity and a somewhat slim chance of hitting it big on an IPO at a startup in Silicon Valley.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Many people start companies arse backwards. When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again.

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