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Interview with Daryl Bernstein, RightSignature

socalTECH

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. We've also got a huge list of additional document types in the works. and the E.U.,

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

InfoChachkie

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. One of my first posts was entitled The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons. Enter Eric Ries .

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Empowering Music Teachers With TakeLessons' Online Marketplace

socalTECH

The idea is that products have moved to the web in a big way. We had a general thesis that, at some point in the future, services will also move to the web, in the same way that products had moved to the web. Steve Cox: We''ve found that folks who have been educated to some degree--not necessarily a Ph.D.,

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

Both Sides of the Table

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. We were doing an educational session on term sheets.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

socalTECH

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model.

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Water Metering Startup Wins Vote for “Best Demo” at EvoNexus Event

Xconomy

— Guru is developing technology for museums and other cultural institutions and creates engaging educational experiences that can be viewed on a variety of mobile devices. Co-founder and CEO Charles Brown said the Web-based system would save salons thousands of dollars each year by providing more precise measurements.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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