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Quick Pitch Friday: Taher Scherzay, Thaeres

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Scherzay was previously the CTO at CrowdGather, and also had founded social media software firm FavRav. Effectively, when an organization uses our product, the can scale any subscription service with ease. Where''s the sweet spot for your product? What is Thaeres about? Taher Scherzay: We launched Thaeres last July.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

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Every new business or product owner wants to attract the broadest possible audience, so they are prone to adding more features, multiple sales channels, and appealing to every demographic. Focus means creating a minimum viable product (MVP) first, and validating it in the marketplace. Limit solution scope and features.

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Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

Tech Zulu Event

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. We thank you!

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I like to see how they improve their products when there are obvious holes. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage? What price?

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Part accelerator, part lab, and part café, Hub LA is a diverse community working for social good. Product Development: philosophie. Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony. Social Media: Snapchat. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I like to see how they improve their products when there are obvious holes. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage? What price?

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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Fortunately the Web doesn’t stand still and a great deal of research and development continues to go into evolving the mechanics of today’s online social universe. Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media. Poor integration between social media and location services.

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