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8 Articles match "LinkedIn","Startup","Summary"
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.
If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. They Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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Monday, March 8, 2010
As a way of thanking you for your good work, we'll give you a free ticket good for one day admission to a Walt Disney World® or Disneyland® theme park. " Summary Follow these links to find the updates, and follow further for the full listings. 8 New and 4 Updates in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . Join the LinkedIn group to get the meeting schedule, and both confirm if meetings are happening and RSVP. 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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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? If any of this happens it’s 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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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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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? If any of this happens it’s 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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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 And a great product starts with the founder.
Quick caveats: having fewer investors (3-5) is better than many investors (10-15) and PLEASE make sure you hire a great lawyer who has experience in doing start-ups to avoid pitfalls that will make VC harder down the line. Also, 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
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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.
If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. They Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
I attended the Los Angeles Dealmaker event that featured several angel and seed-stage investors on the panel: Jarl Mohn, Scott Sangster ( Organic Startup ), Rob Hayes ( First Round Capital ), and Thomas McInerney (TGM). The Every entrepreneur has had emails or telephone calls go unanswered, or has felt like giving up after navigating around a VC website in search of an email address only to find the dreaded black hole of info@[name of vc].com. The audience of entrepreneurs were witness to some candid discussion on how to make contact, structure deals, and manage relationships with angel investors as well as some of the differences between angel investors and venture capital investors.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
The main summary of my interview is that VC may only right for you IF:
This adds some pressure to speed things up.
Start-up lawyers – we do deals with them constantly. They Easier to start by networking with some of our investments. Don’t I recently appeared on Fox Business News covering the topic of raising Venture Capital. If If you’re in the market or thinking about VC in the future the following video may be of interest to you – click here to view. Video
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
I attended the Los Angeles Dealmaker event that featured several angel and seed-stage investors on the panel: Jarl Mohn, Scott Sangster ( Organic Startup ), Rob Hayes ( First Round Capital ), and Thomas McInerney (TGM). The Every entrepreneur has had emails or telephone calls go unanswered, or has felt like giving up after navigating around a VC website in search of an email address only to find the dreaded black hole of info@[name of vc].com. The audience of entrepreneurs were witness to some candid discussion on how to make contact, structure deals, and manage relationships with angel investors as well as some of the differences between angel investors and venture capital investors.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
I attended the Los Angeles Dealmaker event that featured several angel and seed-stage investors on the panel: Jarl Mohn, Scott Sangster ( Organic Startup ), Rob Hayes ( First Round Capital ), and Thomas McInerney (TGM). The Every entrepreneur has had emails or telephone calls go unanswered, or has felt like giving up after navigating around a VC website in search of an email address only to find the dreaded black hole of info@[name of vc].com. The audience of entrepreneurs were witness to some candid discussion on how to make contact, structure deals, and manage relationships with angel investors as well as some of the differences between angel investors and venture capital investors.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
As a way of thanking you for your good work, we'll give you a free ticket good for one day admission to a Walt Disney World® or Disneyland® theme park. " Summary Follow these links to find the updates, and follow further for the full listings. 8 New and 4 Updates in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . Join the LinkedIn group to get the meeting schedule, and both confirm if meetings are happening and RSVP. 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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