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52 Articles match "Company","LinkedIn","Startup"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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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.
We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. But Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Join the LinkedIn group to get the meeting schedule, and both confirm if meetings are happening and RSVP. 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. 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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Monday, March 1, 2010
RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in... Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010
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Monday, February 8, 2010
The one where they HAD BETTER say good things about you because if they don’t then you’re really messed up for not suggesting the right people and calling them in advance to control the process and make sure that they say good things. Good When you finally get back up on your feet again,
Everybody Make sure to call This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital .
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.” Despite best intentions they probably won’t follow up on their actions. Why don’t VC’s follow up? The partner you saw is probably This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC .” 8221; Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. I But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? So people diligently put in their hours every year, brag about how little vacation they’ve taken and try to save up for 45 years so that one day in their late 60’s (or in today’s era 70’s) they can do what they’ve always dreamed of. They A couple of years ago I read the popular book, “The Four Hour Workweek ” by Tim Ferriss. It It was recommended to me by my friend,
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water. So I scan it for the most important messages to be sure nothing urgent has popped up.
8221; They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan ” and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Let’s start with a discussion of existing social networks and then how to approach people on them.
Second, I don’t want to clutter up the stream of information that I have in my Facebook newsfeed with information on people with whom I don’t have a relationship.
Usually it’s because your conversations steam looks interesting, your link goes to an interesting blog or website or you work at a company that interests me. I I sometimes think that certain advice is BGO (blinding glimpse of the obvious) and doesn’t warrant mentioning. But But then
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Jarl Great companies are built by having great products. And And a great product starts with the founder.
One great company, This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC .
Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round Capital, more seed or A round than angel), Scot Sangster (with OrganicStartup
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Monday, October 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then).
My blog was wiped out. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
So the key question is: How can I leverage my network? One Page Networking Tool One of the best things I've seen done by a person doing a search was to provide folks he knew with a one pager that roughly contained: Background - two sentences Job Sought - two sentences Company Characteristics - geography, size, industry, etc. Companies - a list of 25 companies that fit the bill. For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them. Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was
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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.
We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. But Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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Monday, March 1, 2010
RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in... Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010
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