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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. I blog on entrepreneurship & VC precisely because entrepreneurs and other VCs are my customers. That may soon change.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

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I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens. One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. This is somewhat changing in the world of crowd funding where people actually raise money so that they can build products but at a minimum your product design ought to be complete and ready to execute.

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GLAZED | Wearable Tech Conference [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

The Glazed Conference will seek to bring in all the major players into the discussion including: Over $20bn funding on stage from Blue Chip Investors like Mayfield, Samsung Ventures, Rising Tide Ventures, DN Capital, KPCB, Quallcom Ventures, Spark Capital, Bloomberg Capital and Softtech VC.

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Tech and Entertainment Have a Home in Silicon Beach

Tech Zulu Event

The Los Angeles Business Journal recently reported data compiled by SoCalTech.com showing that “L.A. The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. percent higher than those of last year.

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter. It’s unclear, though, if the $41.8 million disclosed in a July 14 filing includes $27.3M

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Stained Glass Labs | First Glass and Wearable Tech Conference GLAZED

Tech Zulu Event

The Glazed Conference will seek to bring in all the major players into the discussion including: Top Tier Press and Editors from TechZulu, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, All Things D, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Examiner among others. The Top GLASS focused entrepreneurs in the world.