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The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

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The nasty and brutish deaths of the unfortunate turtles are disquieting , but the process ensures that the survivors are (on average) strong, healthy and able to capitalize on the ecosystem''s resources. There is a similar Darwinian aspect to venture capital investing. There are no villains in the current Series A drama.

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

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RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting. Human Computer Interaction.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. If you want something to be shared virally on the web it has to be short.&#. In an era of RSS, Twitter, Facebook & new consumption tools like FlipBoard – titles matter.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform. By definition need redundancy.

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

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.” 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. Powered by Personforce. Latest on TechCrunch TV. Apple sells 5 million iPhones on opening weekend.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Simply put, there is no market for RSS.

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