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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. Many people start companies arse backwards. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity. Every entrepreneur starts with an idea that they believe makes sense. So much so that you’re financial model 2 years out won’t resemble your starting model at all. They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Welcome to the accelerated version of Startup Weekend. I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. Brought back fond memories of my weekend at Startup Weekend. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Teams: CoderTie. Better Goals.

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Dallas Day of.Net | Training and Trends on Microsoft Technologies

Tech Zulu Event

It’s OK, You Can Create Kick-Ass Web AppsAre you tired of getting verbally beat up about developing web and HTML5 apps? Leveraging these techniques should put you on an even playing field or ahead of the native app competition. This session starts from scratch and primes a new ASP.NET MVC 4/.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market.

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

Tech Zulu Event

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. What is CHNL? John met Jason at Ingrooves. We love Web 3.0.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. Not only would it be less authentic but if you’re a startup it’s not immediately clear that other startup CEOs are your target market.

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