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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. For highlighting what is uniquely LA, for adhering to a strict quality standard for speakers and for building this great platform for the future Francisco Dao (aka “ The Man ”) should feel proud of what he has accomplished.

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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Lead With New Work Models

Startup Professionals Musings

Both are required to stay competitive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Yammer. They are now actively recruited for many roles. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’

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Entrepreneurs And Startups Drive Future Work Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

Both are required to stay competitive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social media platforms such as Yammer. They are now actively recruited for many roles. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses. Nice sweep!

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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

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Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Geni.com beget Yammer. The next time they came back they had changed their business plan to become a variable rate pricing mechanism for image owners to sell to websites and had created an image-based ad-network platform for remnant photos.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Why Invest?

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