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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA .” 8221;  If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All
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Venture Capital’s impact on SoCal: $48 billion

Benjamin Kuo's Blog
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
This morning, we published the results of an extensive study of the impact of venture capital companies on Southern California in terms of exit values, finding that exits from VC-backed firms between 1995 and 2009 generated an astounding $48 billion (billion with a capital B) in value. but this is probably the first time anyone has tallied up exactly how much value has been generated from venture investments here, at least in terms of investment value. The study, which was conducted by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners (also  of Allegis Capital), used data from our own venture capital database, additional data from Dow Jones/VentureSource, as well as private data collected by Redpoint Venturs’ Greg Martin.
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Job Search Resources Weekly Update - 3/8/2010

Todd Zebert
Monday, March 8, 2010
With your printed ticket, security at the entrance would let you past the rope and up the stairs you needed to wind your way back to the theater. Attire ranged from t-shirts and jeans to button-up shirts with coats, with a handful of some funkier attire. The Orange County meeting is new for 2009, and while the following is true for the LA meeting the OC one is probably similar: You pay as you walk in, meet the organizers, get Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Monday, August 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons.” Tags: Start-up Advice startu 8221;  If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. In In the Beginning … This
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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Monday, August 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. ” Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful.  Would 8221;  The problem is that you’re opening yourself up to a claim by one of these people that you somehow stole their ideas.  I 8221;  If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here . In the Beginning …
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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

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Friday, August 28, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons Building I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze.  We Tags: Start-up Advic Building companies is hard work.  I We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We We
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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

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Friday, August 28, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze.  We It didn’t add up to me.  How Bad morale is the enemy of any company let alone a start up.” Building companies is hard work.  I We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded.
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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons ” Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many. When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company.  This This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see many, many companies make.
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Who Should you Hire at a Startup?

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Thursday, October 22, 2009
This is part of my ongoing posts on  Startup Advice .  There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find.  It is tempting because you not only see that they were VP Sales at 3 other startups but also that they have great access (according to their resume) to senior executives at companies you’re trying to target.  Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class I’m not one of those. 
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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. Quite often the goal is to get them into an excel spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.
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Should Your Startup Have an Advisory Board?

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Sunday, October 11, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice .  Many startup companies hire advisory boards.  If you plan to set one up – no problem.  Advisory Board Problems : There are several problems that I have encountered myself and in my many discussions with CEO’s who have set up advisory boards. It’s very tempting.  It’s mostly done by first-time entrepreneurs who want to persuade (bribe?)
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What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

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Monday, December 14, 2009
It’s the person who never gives up – who never accepts “no” for an answer.  If you’re already running a startup you know all this.  But some founders have that extra quality that makes them never give up.  It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful .  I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.
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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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Monday, September 7, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple.  8221; I
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