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

Both Sides of the Table

He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. They are very hands on.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo!

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

While everyone developed their products throughout the day, SWLA teams briefly said hi to Marc Nager (StartupWeekend CEO) during a quick Skype call who was down in New Zealand facilitating Startup Weekend. What a SWLA. Feel free to reach out with questions about this Startup Weekend LA or future events by emailing me at Tyler@Ming.ly

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