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Competitive Intelligence

SoCal Tech Calendar

PDMA SoCal. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to estimate market size, competitive market share, how many potential customers are there, and price points. Several case studies will be presented, although the names will be changed to protect the innocent. It's Monday morning. Just who is doing what in the market?

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Entrepreneur Association Conference

SoCal Tech Calendar

Friday, May 11, 2012 -- Entrepreneur Association Conference. 15 percent discount for SOCALTECH readers.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. Well, you have to do that, too. I endorse the growth hacking culture on teams.

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

socalTECH

We are looking globally, and though I love SoCal, we're not a regional fund, which is important for that size conversation. We'd do a Series A, and participate in the Series B, but when companies hit breakout, we would call a late stage VC and have them price the deal, and do all of that.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. I am always an advocate of setting a price.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.” I was based in LA and thought there was an interesting angle there – I could be SoCal guy. Not kidding.

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Action Sports and Social Media Live Wednesday

Tech Zulu Event

Tomorrow starting at 8pm PST We will be live streaming ( click here to view live stream ) the "Action Sports + Social Media Marketing Mash Up" event put on by SoCal Action Sports Network. This is a paid event and will cost you $20 for the discounted online price and $40 at the door. So get the online price here ( [link] ).