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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Email updates frequently. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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However Gmail is only private email conversations. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!

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Interview with Cramster.com

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Aaron Hawkey: Cramster is an online study community, built around students and educational subjects. Editor's note: Shai Reshef is the firm's angel investor, and sold his last company to educational firm Kaplan). We received an unexpected email from him that said -- "Please come talk with me."

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. Mark Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Previous post: Why Email Isn’t Dead Next post: The Power of Small Get-Togethers Producing an event? He blogs here and tweets here.

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