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How Do I Feel About the Snap IPO Given I Didn’t Invest?

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Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” We did know about Snapchat as early as anybody. Mostly I wanted the journalist to know: We love Snapchat.

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MoneyTree Report: Southern California Q3 Venture Totals Drop To $663.27M

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Q2 fundings in Southern California were much higher, due to a giant $1.27 billion funding round for Snapchat. Carlsbad-based Ostendo Technologies , a developer of solid state lighting raised $41.8M According to the report, there were 71 deals worth a total of $663.2M in funding in Q3, down from the much larger, $2.5

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Omnia Brings Wireless Car Charging to the iPhone 7 and 6 [ Review ]

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One of the biggest changes besides to the design on both was the addition of wireless charging using QI technology. Just as the new iPhones have, the Omnia uses QI technology to let you charge your iPhone 6 and iPhone 7, but you must use a special cover for it to work. Read more Gear and Gadget reviews by Elliot at TechCo .

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

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He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. He wanted to bring the same level of technology focus and energy that Mayor Bloomberg had brought to New York City.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Do Less. More.

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There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. We always look like it’s only fun in our Instagram photos, don’t we? Year in, year out.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. But it wasn’t to be.

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