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What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

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Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. As you know, Justin’s is 8-15 year-old girls and he built his music & persona around this demo. The media eats it up as they always need something to write about.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. With pleasure.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Use social media to be sure people are aware of it. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Mistakes we made?

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Introducing Snapstorms.com. Why, oh, why Snapchat?

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Here’s an example of a recent Snapstorm on negotiations: https://medium.com/media/ecca992139dedfef9ac6dc1a6afe432e/href So for the people who still don’t get why I’d use Snapchat — in no particular order let me say: I enjoy doing it. I LOVE writing. But writing takes more time and some days I don’t have that. I do these, too.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. There is a battle between entrepreneurs who try to change the world and solve a meaningful problem and those who write take-down pieces with no apparent personal benefit other than attention. ” **. . ” **.