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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB.

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

socalTECH

We are looking globally, and though I love SoCal, we're not a regional fund, which is important for that size conversation. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio. To me, there are a couple of elements of the fund we're very excited about.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. But if you CAN find a way to even get your 0.1 Also, make sure that your investors are accredited.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.”

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. Without insights into the Northern California startup ecosystem, our thesis was, "Why are these guys seeking capital in SoCal? thought you might be interested as well: [link].

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Moving Analytics | Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

Tech Zulu Event

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. You recently conducted a pilot study. Can you share with us how the learnings of this pilot study impacted your strategy? Before we did the study we did a lot of research to see how best we could show the data. We need to sit less, and move more.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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