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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Write things down.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. Tags: SoCal Stuff.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

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Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Write things down.

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Digital Health Becoming a Reality

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Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. WakeMate has you record things like the last time you had caffeine before sleeping, your last meal and when you last had computer or TV screen time. Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysis. We’ll see. Enter Withings.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff. Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory.

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Embrace Losing

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We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Something happened and it was clear to me that this IE issues was just a smoke screen. You are most vulnerable right after it has been announced that you won (I will write a separate post on this). Write things down. We met everybody in the organization.

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