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This Week’s Keynote Presentations

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In LA we lack the same scale of technology ecosystem as they have in the Bay Area. We have tons of entrepreneurs but our technology community has historically been splintered across town and across industries. with high calibre technology people will get my time. I’m doing a short keynote tonight. Hope to see you!

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Interview with Stuart MacFarlane, iChange

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Momentum Ventures is a firm which has been very active providing management expertise in Southern California, helping promising technology firms. The concept that we built iChange around, was that we could use technology to help connect people with subject matter experts. We can leverage the social graph already in place.

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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

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As per my video, think about the data in the following slide. It seemed like “all of the big ideas had been done” in technology. This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). “ And my fear?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. From a technology perspective our journey is nowhere near over. Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. Slides, please.” I was wrong. This is going well. Page 1: Market Size. $3

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

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Okay, so now you have it narrowed down and have determined that you need: Part-Time CTO or Technology Advisor to help guide you and close a bit of the Startup Founder Developer Gap , and Equity-Only Cofounder Developer - the first real developer that will work for equity and produce the bulk of the application.

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