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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. You''ve got to do your report every month.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. My blog was wiped out. It all made sense. Biggest lessons ….

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The most recent report to weigh in on the troubles of the industry was produced by the esteemed Kauffman Foundation. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors.

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