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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

But I find that the more informed your board is and the more you’re staying on their radar screen the more effective they’ll be for you. If they need to dial in make sure they’re on a web conference and you can see them and vice versa. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. It happens. It is a HUGE MF distraction.

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Raising Seed Capital Now: 10 Tips

Tech Coast Venture Network

After years of cloudy skies in Startupland, the sun is peeking out, and investors are tipping their toes back into the wading pool. To help you get a jump-start with fundraising, I’ve gathered tips from active early-stage investors and entrepreneurs who managed to beat the odds by raising capital during and after the Great Recession.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. See also: 12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews , 12 tips for customer development , tips for customer development.

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Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood, LA Tech Summit, and Idea to Screen | Why You Need to Attend Any or All

Tech Zulu Event

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. tech community and to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing us in the coming years.

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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, Fast forward a decade and now I had a startup filled with smart web developers. lean startups or even the advent of AJAX.

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Learning The Ropes Of Internet Video With Michael Tringe and CreatorUp

socalTECH

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

socalTECH

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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