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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs.

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A Venture Capitalist’s Take on Investing in Cannabis

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However, federal laws still remain staunchly opposed to legal cannabis and there are more than enough politicians looking to keep cannabis from making an appearance in the market. Take a look at our interview below and decide whether or not you want to invest in cannabis. So as an investor, what do you do? The Ground Floor.

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Catching Up With Eli Portnoy, Sense360

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For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), That competitiveness is driving companies to make better decisions. It's always been about focusing on a vertical and find adjacent markets. We've had lots of success there.

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How ConsumerTrack Has Created A Growing, Profitable--and Mostly Unknown Business

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In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. How have you managed to build the company to the size you have without outside funding?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

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Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro.

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Interview with Lolita Carrico, Gloss Network

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Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Those are our three biggest categories as far as sponsorship and readership. Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive.