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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

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Find the best and brightest next generation of entrepreneurs and help them to be more successful. Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors. The rest is history. How’d we do? I’m excited.

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500 Startups Presents Bitcoinference

Tech Zulu Event

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. He then dove into a keynote Q&A with Dan Held , developer of recently acquired Zeroblock LLC.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. CEO on front cover of Entrepreneur magazine. million from Rincon Ventures & Tim Draper. For the past 2.5 This education will continue.

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Interview With Brian McCarthy, Dentistry.com

socalTECH

To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. They have a day job, running the existing business, and they then have to commit more time and effort into building Dentistry.com, to develop the technology, processes, and all we have to do. What is Dentistry.com? So, that's my story. I'll share it.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. Entrepreneurs should seek those people out.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

socalTECH

Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. Clark Benson: We raised money from Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Palo Alto, Rincon Ventures, and a number of angels. What's the story behind Ranker? I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). Especially for their stage of development. Investors: Helion Venture Partners (Ashish Gupta), Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Nexus Venture Partners. I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. 7.5mm in Series C.