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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

Both Sides of the Table

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. I buy dead magazines.” I buy dead magazines. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. We buy dead magazines. Most are squandered.

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Zite | Your Personalized Magazine

Tech Zulu Event

Zite, which was acquired by CNN in late 2011, is a personalized magazine to help clean up all that content overload we deal with on the web when trying to catch up on the days current events and instead delivers content based on your personal interest.

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Zite | Your Personalized Magazine

Tech Zulu Event

Zite, which was acquired by CNN in late 2011, is a personalized magazine to help clean up all that content overload we deal with on the web when trying to catch up on the days current events and instead delivers content based on your personal interest.

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Biggest conferences coming up for startups in 2017

StartUp Beat

Startup conferences offer the opportunity for maximum networking while facilitating knowledge sharing among different industry participants. 2017 has already witnessed a load of successful and exciting conferences, including World Domination Summit, Startup+Fest and CEO Space. Disrupt SF is hosted by the famous TechCrunch magazine.

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VC in the OC

SoCal Tech Calendar

Join OCTANe for this unique conference to get the inside view on cutting edge technologies, hot start-ups, venture investments, and industry leaders. Success Magazine calls Wang "the slayer of Costco, the titan of TV, the visionary of Vizio. This is the conference to connect with the Orange County marketplace.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. People proclaimed that there was a “new economy” and “the old rules didn’t apply” and if you questioned it you “just didn’t get it.”

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VCs with Personalities? Foundry Group FTW!

Both Sides of the Table

You’d see them speak at conferences using their favorite euphemisms for businesses that grow rapidly or for really profitable businesses. I also loved the guest appearance by Dan Primack of Fortune Magazine. I realized it was part of the process because it’s such a high-volume activity being a VC.