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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Tom Peters No single thing in the last 15 years professionally has been more important in my life than blogging. But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. This is that post.

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JULY 17, 2012

Monday, July 23, 2012 -- The Who,What,When,Where and How of Blogging. What to Blog About Which platforms to use * Tumblr * Blogger * Wordpress * Posterous Domain Options RSS Feed Options Managin Comments Who is reading your blog?

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. Chris talks in his blog post about your A round pricing being lower if you have a VC seed investor.

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JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I've been remiss in posting to this blog. But, what's interesting is that the old SoCal events hosted by folks like the Technology Council seem to be struggling for attendees, while you get 250 to a networking only event during the middle of the day. Very busy on a couple interesting start-ups. More on them in a couple months.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 -- Secrets to Launching an Effective Blog to Promote Your Business. See [link] (more).

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MARCH 27, 2012

Funk- has plenty of experience on the other side of the table as a venture capitalist, having funded such successful SoCal firms as Sandpiper Networks, Rent.com and Shopzilla. And as might be expected, there is no shortage of advice, varying from blog postings to a seemingly limitless selection of events.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysis. That’s always stuck with me. We’ll see.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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MAY 4, 2010

Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 -- "How Blogging, Widgets and Streaming Video Can Make Your Marketing Efforts Take Off" TCOSC. Attention-getting websites, glamorous ad campaigns, beautiful collateral materials, intriguing blogs, plus many new technology-based tools.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

I thought I would take an opportunity on this blog to move away from some of the current investment and startup trends, reflect, and dive into the tech history books (as well as my own personal history) by looking at the man and place I believe really put the modern southern California tech community on the map: Bill Gross and Idealab.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! They had agreed!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! They had agreed!

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MARCH 25, 2011

Mark is a UCSD graduate and writes one of the best startup blogs on the Internet. Come hear him talk about about SoCal startups, entrepreneurship and the investment scene. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. See [link] (more)

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JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

I recently read a book I'd highly recommend to every reader of this blog called "Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive” by Robert B. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. If you are not already a subscriber of Mark’s Both Sides of the Table blog , you need to be.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

To top it off he is a SoCal local! Tags: Blogging News Chromatik CitizenNet Matt Sandler Startup Digest StartupDigest TechZulu. From the countless submissions TechZulu received when we put out the word out that we were hiring a writer. We finally came down to what we believe will be an amazing addition to the TechZulu writing team.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded in blogs and other content): It allows you to authenticate yourself using Facebook Connect , Twitter Oauth (sign in with Twitter), OpenID , and Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication. Example What do I mean?

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JULY 14, 2009

To make matters even more difficult almost 90% of VCs based in SoCal in 1999 are now gone while our beachhead entertainment companies have a terrible track record at making early stage investments and now typically wait to invest in later rounds. So how does an entrepreneur based in SoCal get the attention of VC funds today?

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog. Meetup – My personal experience has been mixed with these. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events or even Santa Monica Events.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. As they showed me around the CIC I was instantly envious. We don’t believe in it anymore.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Its works great.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

I'm also still busy working with Baron Miller to produce MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) , which is a curated, invite only conversation we produce in SoCal. You should check out my blog for my 'go to' people - I have them listed on my posse section. I'm hoping that Baron and Kurt come up with one that's in Santa Monica / West LA.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

I find myself speaking at various venues in Los Angeles to tell people (most often service providers) about how I've used social media and particularly my blogs, LinkedIn, twitter and topic hubs as part of my own services business. How can I get more help setting up my blog? How can I get more help setting up my blog?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. in Computer Science.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Sorry - I posted this on the wrong blog. You can find it here: [link]

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. Im sure that many of you have read Guys article Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. Startup Co-Founders: If You Cant Recruit Em, Should You Join Em?

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MAY 7, 2010

On my eLearning blog, I recently predicted the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. I view the point of this blog to provide my thoughts and perspectives as an Acting CTO mostly concerned with Startup Development to entrepreneurs and other CTOs. Make pronouncements in your blog? This got quite a lot of passionate response.

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MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool! in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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