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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers. Google’s famous 56 th employee, Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google in 1999 was paid 40,000 in Google stock as part of his compensation package.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers. Google’s famous 56 th employee, Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google in 1999 was paid 40,000 in Google stock as part of his compensation package.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

But I’m sure he’ll never remember your company when Google buys you for $500 million and he’s still eating Ramen – right? Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Our lives are intertwined.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . You quit your 9-5 to build the next google or iBeer. The web is constantly changing—ne. Entrepreneurism / Monetization collaboration, Side-Projects, web design. . Funding / VC. Jusin Fishner-Wolfson, 137 Ventures. Rob Katz, Vail Resorts.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Download the TechCrunch App for Android in Google Play. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.