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Interview with Jim Belanger, Gamer Doc

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One of those retailers -- Gamer Doc (www.gamerdoc.com) is based in Newport Beach, and we caught up with Jim Belanger, the firm's President, to dig deeper into why video game retailers seem to be doing slightly better than others. Treating them with respect is a big, important part at Gamer Doc.

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BetterWorks Adds Catering

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One of BetterWorks existing customers--fellow Santa Monica startup Docstoc, the online doc professional doc sharing firm headed by Jason Nazar--said it has been testing the catering feature prior to official launch, as it orders office-wide meals at least twice a week for its 30 employees.

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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

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In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” This growth led Jed Christiansen to base his master thesis on the impact and efficacy of the phenomenon.

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Going to Raise VC? Here’s a Primer on Process, People, Deck

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If they say yes you get a term sheet and once this is signed it is usually 3-6 weeks until your legal docs get signed and you’re funded. Progress to date of your company (when started, key milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot / beta customers, financing). Who should attend the meeting? Competition. Market sizing.

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Interview with Zeb Evans, ClickUp

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Zeb Evans: ClickUp is a workplace productivity platform, for putting all of your work in one place, including tasks, docs, goals, and chat. Who are your typical customers? That's what we hear when we speak to our customers, and that's also for ourselves, internally. ClickUp has raised $135M in venture capital so far.

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Accelerator To Exit In 14 Months, With Eli Portnoy of ThinkNear

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We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. It's little known, but we were going to sign the docs on a Series A two days after we got the LOI for TeleNav. We had more customers, and more repeating. Were you looking at acquisition, or did it just come up? Everything got easier.

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How ContractSafe Wants To Help You Get Your Legal Docs In Order, With Ken Button

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We caught up with Ken Button , the co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about why the startup already has signed up such customers as California Pizza Kitchen, Obvious Ventures, Fandango, Greenspire, and others to the service. From this point forward, we'll be scaling on the customer acquisition side. What is ContractSafe?

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