If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company.  I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers ” written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). 

also asked her about how she built T/Maker, a pioneering software company. And how she launched her latest startup, SkinnySongs. Previously, she founded T/Maker, a pioneering software company which she sold to Deluxe Corporation, she worked for Apple as Vice President of World Wide Developer Relations, and she was the Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital. We were The Harvard Business School Case Study on Heidi Roizen talks about the dinner parties she hosts for tech leaders like her personal friend, Bill Gates, and how people skills helped her build one of the most admired careers in Silicon Valley.

In March 2007,  when Pownce launched, Twitter didn't have much of a head start. Plus it was backed by Kevin Rose a Web celebrity with geek cred. Leah promotes open source, APIs, and the Django web framework on her blog at leahculver.com . think, if I were to do a new start up or a different company, I would pick it in an area where there wasn’t such good We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects.

From the company's About page: "We started out as GotVMail Communications in 2003, after identifying the need for an easy-to-use virtual phone system for entrepreneurs that wouldn’t break the bank. ... As Rather than paying this guy a million dollars up front on day one and then having to break even point some few years later, we said, 'We'll pay you as we grow.' But If you like my interview, please vote for it on my favorite news site. --Andrew Andrew

Yesterday, I met with someone at the early stage of a startup. Just the kind of person I like to meet. :) But I was a bit surprised when he emphasized how hard it had been for them to find a web developer in Los Angeles. My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” His response was that he had done exactly that, but that the long list is not all that useful. He has a great concept with some complexity to it. He was struggling to find high quality developers in Los Angeles.

Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. How he came up with the idea for Goodreads But people started to get burned out on those big generic sites. So then they started going to these niche sites. Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew

When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he's more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. asked Wil to come to Mixergy to teach his online sales techniques, and to talk about his latest company, Affordit.com . With Go Big, it's just not easy to replicate twenty thousand investors or two hundred and fifty thousand startups. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com , because he's so methodical about it. For example, his order process is always split into two parts: the first page asks

Since eduFire , the live video learning site, plays in many niches and recruits stars in each one, I thought they'd be a good company to teach us how to do VIP recruitment. invited Koichi, the company's Social Media Marketer, for an interview about how eduFire recruits and trains its rock star teachers. Koichi is the Social Media Marketer at eduFire , a company that offers online video classes anytime Every niche has its celebrities, people who aren't well-known to the rest of the world but are heros to a passionate few. We've We've heard past Mixergy entrepreneurs mention

One of the things I first discovered when I started tracking the high tech industry here in Southern California, is — due to how many people are here, and how spread out we are — it’s often much harder for entrepreneurs to find service providers, whether that is a web design firm, an attorney, a commercial real estate broker, software developer, etc. If you’re in Palo Alto, it’ s fairly easy to pick up the phone book and know that the business attorney you’re calling most likely has done at least a few venture deals–or maybe hundreds–not

What kind of Mayor would @Percival be if he didn’t show up? Web TV Prep Classes - Are you a writer compelled to finally produce your passion project? The course will cover the four major areas of: creative development/casting, production, Post Production/Web Design/Technology, and Social Networking/Viral Marketing/Sales. It’s February now and that means there’s a whole new month of tech events to attend. There are some pretty cool ones happening this week that are not your usual monthly event.