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MySpace Faces Challenge From KPCB's sFund

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KPCB announced its new sFund, a $250M fund which will invest in entrepreneurs in the social space, specifically highlighting Facebook as "the best place to build the next generation" of social businesses. KPCB said its new sFund will focus on the next generation of social entrepreneurs.

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Have you fallen into the buggy whip trap?

Berkonomics

Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. The answer is simple, but somehow out of reach for most senior executives and entrepreneurs. A more modern example.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. And so you have great local tech press like Business Insider who covers the industry very well. Local press matters. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program. Maker Studios.

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The “buggy whip” trap.

Berkonomics

Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. The answer is simple, but somehow out of reach for most senior executives and entrepreneurs.

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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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Kevin is founder of Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA, attracting more than 2,000 attendees, and mentioned in the New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, LA Times, and other national and local press. Kevin graduated from Yale University, and has a masters from Harvard University.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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