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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News.

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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. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners.

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TechZulu Tech Crawl | Culver City Edition!

Tech Zulu Event

Whether you’re a networked entrepreneur or just finding your way in the LA tech scene, TZ Tech Crawls give you a fun way to discover new things about the community and each other. Why: How often do you get to go behind the scenes at a company and experience where the work is done? When: Thursday, April 23, 6-10:30pm PT. Praedicat, Inc.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

But that product is the perfect example of perfectly suited for the web given the real estate available. I would love to see FourSquare double down on web development and market it harder to its user base. MVP on mobile then hit web. Use that as a source of competition. How awesome would that be?

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

While taking a startup public is a goal most entrepreneurs dream of, the general rule of thumb is the more capital your raise the more control you have to cede and the less tolerance your investors will have of poor financial performance. So, whether an entrepreneur raises money or not, they have to have a long-term vision.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. Yes, I did say competition. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: We're Not Saving Lives.

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. If I had a 95% success rate in starting companies, launching products and selling, I would be, by far, the most successful entrepreneur ever to live. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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