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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Far from it. It was an early and smart bet.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. Yes, Google won. Google’s Ad Sense did, too.

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Digest 6/6 – 12: Big Raises for Spaces VR, Virtual Reality Co, Frequency; Legendary Goes OTT

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IDEAS LA ( -6/16). GOOGLE Moving into Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose Hangar ( link ). GIRLS WHO CODE Comes to Disney. Only a few hours away from welcoming @GirlsWhoCode to @Disney for 7 weeks! THIS WEEK’S EVENTS: see full calendar. Monday, June 13. Table Top Invitational. Tuesday, June 14. E3 ( -6/16).

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Keep It Down Up There | The Canadian Tech Scene in Toronto

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Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene. Perez returned from the conference with a fresh idea to solving problems in the contractor industry and is building a completely new platform.

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Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

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I knew change was inevitable, but I had no idea how stressful and exhausting maintaining my internal reality distortion field had been until they gave me permission to turn it off.” It is what he set out to build and he had huge initial success in landing big clients like Disney, Zynga, Gilt and TopSpin. It’s your baby.

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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

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There’s just something about being able to to connect to a startup that is at the same stage as you are, to come up with ideas and solutions together.” It sits above curriculum, investor connections, etc. ” Demo Day. SoundBetter serves as the world’s leading marketplace for sound and music engineers.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

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Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. Cham had other ideas. The topic was “the future of television & the digital living room.&#.