Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You

If these numbers work out, then often scaling is more a question of capital. Quite often the goal is to get them into an excel spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure . What Dave McClure's presentation does is point to some additional metrics that are useful to think about and consider: A : Acquisition - where / what channels do users come from? A : Activation - what % have a "happy" initial experience? R : Retention - do they

The lalawag crew made their way north this weekend for the annual TechCrunch August Capital party. The packed patio at August Capital Tags: Photos august capital san francisco techcrunc Here are some of our favorite photos from the event by Wm. Marc Salsberry . Tonight’s liquid courage

This coming Monday, October 26, the Perfect Pitch 2009 Entrepreneur and Investor Conference is taking place at the Ritz Carlton. Details The Perfect Pitch 2009 Entreprenuer and Investor Conference - Hundreds of influential entrepreneurs and investors will converge for a full day of training and dealmaking. Date: Monday, October 26th, 2009 Sir Richard Branson is known for being a successful entrepreneur. Ten minutes alone with the guy could probably change your life if you used it correctly.

3.     Roger Ehrenberg - Managing Partner of IA Capital Partners, LLC Why Why listen: Tara teaches you how to use social capital, instead of cash, to get things done in social media. 1.     Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations Why Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public. You’ll

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice . Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). Broadly speaking this last trend has been healthy as it has brought an increase focus on launching products that you can test with the market and on capital efficiency.  I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0

Local VC Mark Suster recently appears on Fox news to discuss raising venture capitol. In the appearance, Mark helps to answer one of the most important questions for entrepanuers, “Is VC right for you?”. 8221;. Check out the video below and visit Mark’s blog to learn more

Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC” – the outline is here. You’ve You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s.  Everybody seems to like you but nobody seems to be getting out their checkbooks. 

Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice .  Many startup companies hire advisory boards.  It’s very tempting.  It’s mostly done by first-time entrepreneurs who want to persuade (bribe?)

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital . I’m sure I’ll spark the ire of some VC’s for saying so, but there is certainly such a thing as black-out days in venture capital.  It is very difficult to raising venture capital between November 15 – January 7th.  It’s worth you knowing this so you don’t waste your time.  It’s also very important to understand so that you can properly plan when you raise money.