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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Ryan compares the many emerging startup incubators, accelerators, and mentorship programs to NCAA Football Conferences. So the writers block consensus was to write about LA startup incubators and mentorship organizations (2x as many votes as the other proposed topics). LAunchpaLA (the SEC). READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. The picture above is from the actual event courtesy of Dan Farber who was writing for ZDNet.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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MAY 16, 2010

As the day approached I noticed that there was a conference in LA that I wanted to attend. The day before the conference I thought about rescheduling this meeting but then thought, “oh, well. I’ll honor the commitment I made.&# So I didn’t go to the conference. It’s too close to the meeting date.

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MAY 11, 2010

And when I have time I try to write back. So that’s: Marketing / conference invitations – 100 x 5 seconds = That’s still > 8 minutes. Or I’m at BOD meetings or conferences. In the old days if you wrote people a physical letter, first it was a big effort to actually write and send the letter.

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MARCH 29, 2014

Maybe they’ve hit a few set backs: They’ve struggled to raise money, they haven’t gotten press coverage or they haven’t gotten accepted to present at prestigious conferences. Do you think that every conference organizer will promptly meet your needs? It’s your job to persist. Nothing beats a warm intro.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It I see founders who think they can be at every conference, advise multiple companies, do side investments in angel deals, leave the office at 6pm and have a balance life.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 17, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009 -- FundingPost's SoCal Angel and Venture Conference. At our next event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing:How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Thursday, September 28, 2017 -- Orange County VC and Angel Investor Conference. At our next event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! FundingPost. See [link].

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Conferences. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico. Board Meetings. I get sucked up in “Do” mode. Startups Are for Doers.

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JANUARY 26, 2013

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. ” Funding IS the story. Funding is news.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 30, 2017

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 -- FundingPost Los Angeles VC and Angel Investor Conference. Join us for this intimate VC and Angel Investor Conference. At our OC Angel Investor Roundtable, the panel of investors will focus on pitching to early-stage investors, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2017

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 -- FundingPost Orange County VC and Angel Investor Conference. Join us for this intimate VC and Angel Investor Conference. At our OC Angel Investor Roundtable, the panel of investors will focus on pitching to early-stage investors, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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Orange County Venture Capital Conference Angel 100

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APRIL 10, 2010

In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating. It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. So how does this all relate to the upcoming Twitter Chirp conference next week?

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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MARCH 6, 2010

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. When I go to conference I never sit in the meeting section – I always cruise the halls meeting people. We end up out a lot at events: dinners, cocktail parties, conferences. We travel together.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I had a chance to discuss AngelList Syndicates with Naval at Michael Kim’s Cendana LP/VC conference on a panel with Naval, Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) and Mike Brown, Jr. If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. Must be doing something right!

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

She entered you reservation by writing in a time slot in a paper calendar and you were in. They unveiled the app the the Launch conference and unanimously won 1st prize by all 10 judges. The hostess worked from 4-10pm so you had to call during these hours. Between 7-10 she was busy seating guests so had to put your on hold.

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). ” In fact, I was at a recent early-stage VC/LP conference where this was accepted as conventional wisdom. Maybe take some.

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JUNE 20, 2013

The other worthwhile exercise is to write down what your competitors uses as its USPs – even ones that you don’t think are really valuable to customers. They may have met you at a conference, attended a web conference or somehow else interacted with your company’s marketing department. So what’s next?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2011

We have partnered up with DMW for the LA Game Conference and their Gamification and Transmedia Workshops. With a grand total of over $2400 worth of tickets we are sending 4 lucky (1 to each workshop and 2 to LA Game Conference) TechZulu readers to these amazing events. I want LA Game Conference). FREE tickets of course!

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MARCH 3, 2013

Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. I hope to be asked back for next year’s event. Clayton Christensen certainly didn’t disappoint. Internationalization of Technology.

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APRIL 27, 2014

And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs. And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 20, 2019

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 -- San Diego Fundingpost VC and Angel Investor Conference. At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! Register for the FundingPost event on Tuesday, March 26th, 2019.

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San Diego Venture Capital Conference Angel 100

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. I plan to write about this phenomenon soon. You have the super impressive Cory Levy who founded the NextGen Conferences (as well as One, Inc.). Heck, you can launch your company if you’re a developer for $50,000.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at conferences or events so now that I have this done I feel I need to say some words about connecting on social networks. If you take the time to write me a small, private note on LinkedIn then I’ll add you 95% of the time. But then people’s actions tell me otherwise.

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JULY 4, 2016

Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. Mostly I just wanted to write this as a reminder to founders to be suspicious of people who constantly introduce you around. Focus is almost always the right answer.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 21, 2019

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 -- Orange County Fundingpost VC and Angel Investor Conference. At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! Register for the FundingPost event on Wednesday, March 27th, 2019.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. Say hello to them at conferences. Understand that for every article they write they need “an angle&# and if you can’t help shape that you’re not likely to get inches.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

They got us invited to the Fortune CEO conference in Paris held at Versailles. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today). Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. Not so much.).

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MAY 18, 2010

Everyone will want you to speak at conferences. “Thank you for writing to me – it’s nice to hear from you (or meet you) via email. As a startup entrepreneur you’ll have many demands for your time. Especially if you start to have a degree of success or build a high public profile.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Write your set of bullet points on paper before the call. Write out the reason you’re calling, your key points and “the ask” in advance and your time allotment so you can always refer back and make sure you’re tracking to your plan. How can I best help you?” ” It’s what we want.

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MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? One of the masters of this in the startup technology world is Flurry.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. Sometimes when I speak at conferences I’ll stay and shake hands for 2 hours with anybody who wants to say hello. Some days I’m in back-to-back meetings and then I have a late night work dinner and an early morning conference call. I’m not an elitist a **e.

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JULY 27, 2014

I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. I wrote my version here and Scott wrote an excellent write-up of his views here. tl;dr version. Scott spoke about the a16z ethos to put more of the fees investors pay into “services” rather than partner pockets.

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