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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. We had lamp shades on our heads, tequila in our glasses, loud music and perhaps too much sand, and burning men, and art exhibits and tres commas. In a market doing this it becomes very hard to do otherwise.

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Gift Guide 2017: Star Wars Gadgets and Gear

Tech.Co

Star Wars 3D Mega Lamps, $40. These 3D LED lamps add a little flair to your room, and all run with a lifespan of 50,000 hours so that you’ll get the most for your money. We’ll be covering holiday guides for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, the DIYer, cannabis, entrepreneur, STEM, and various others. Definitely.

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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

socalTECH

In a world where we have blogs, social media, sites like TheFunded, and a variety of other sources where entrepreneurs can figure out what other people think about VCs, being open and transparent matters. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind. READ MORE>>.

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

InfoChachkie

In addition, something interesting in happening in Tennessee, with the advent of hands-on venture firms like the Lamp Post Group and innovative ventures, such as PriceWaiter. My Forbes co-contributor Geri Stengel concurs that something is happening in the Volunteer State, writing last month about that state’s emerging women entrepreneurs.

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Why You Should Enlist a Business Mentor, Or Be One

Startup Professionals Musings

Each time I mentor an entrepreneur, I learn new things about their technology, customers, and business domain. In the words of an ancient Buddhist proverb, “If you light a lamp for someone, it will also brighten your own path.” A mentor/mentee relationship must be a win-win and learning experience for both.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

The service was created by experience serial entrepreneurs Mark Sylvester and KymberleeWeil, who some might know from creating service introNetworks. We're entrepreneurs, and we like to build our business, and wish we were known a little more. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. They are big, private communities.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Mark Suster – GRP Partners Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Investors include Ron Conway, Ashton Kutcher, and Brian Solis.

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