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Web 2.0 & eHealth

AeA Los Angeles Council

“Now we need to ensure that policymakers at the state level help promote ePerscribing and that medical practices across the country embrace the technology.” As more IT vendors comply with government regulation, the systems integrate better and customers and clients receive more efficient products. We’ve already seen how Web 2.0

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Why Did I Invest in the Company Pose?

Both Sides of the Table

What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. I hope you’ll excuse me when I do the latter in combination with the former to try and explain how I see macro trends and help you think about the mind of a VC. He wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

socalTECH

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. Since my background is in environmental sciences, as well, I couldn't help noticing all of the things that hadn't been addressed properly. We think we're opening up another channel to help companies monetize.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. “My This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. think his strategy is essentially the Ron Conway strategy , and at his rate ("34-ish investments" in 1-2yr?) Here’s why.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

I learned this lesson long ago – many investors wait until you’re staring at a cliff before committing whether to re-invest in you. Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. I had to go there?