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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

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Twenty years ago, if you started a brand, your first hire, outside of a designer, would have been a salesperson,” Murthy told TechCrunch. Privacy is important, so inventory owners can choose the restrictions on who can see the liquidation, like competitors, and it doesn’t appear in Google searches, Kaplan explained.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. By definition, you read blogs.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). 11:40-14:15).

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