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Interview with David A. Smith, Croquet

socalTECH

The other nice thing about that, is as things are happening on the same computer, there is no server code to write. It's really simple to write an application, compared to the complexity of an application that is multi-user. We created Croquet as a platform to create these amazing kind of applications you just couldn't do before.

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The Toxic Nature of Email

Both Sides of the Table

And I find that platforms like Twitter, IM and even Facebook carry much less “obligation&# to them. And when I have time I try to write back. So that’s: Marketing / conference invitations – 100 x 5 seconds = That’s still > 8 minutes. Or I’m at BOD meetings or conferences.

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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

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There are large sums of money to be invested and if investors can get comfortable with “downside protections” they’ll still write checks. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. Of course I believe the market has slowed down massively.

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To Sell Anything You Need to Know What Makes You Unique

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The other worthwhile exercise is to write down what your competitors uses as its USPs – even ones that you don’t think are really valuable to customers. They may have met you at a conference, attended a web conference or somehow else interacted with your company’s marketing department. So what’s next? Startup Advice'

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

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For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). You now own 20% of a company valued at $50 million but you’ve put in $4m to get that.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

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I had a chance to discuss AngelList Syndicates with Naval at Michael Kim’s Cendana LP/VC conference on a panel with Naval, Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) and Mike Brown, Jr. AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. 25 Years of Writing Code. He helped develop an airline tracking system for Homeland Security and is an organizer of the Agile Open SoCal conference.