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APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC. I know that I call them often to co-invest. So no prizes for guessing what IA Ventures stands for.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Summary Version. For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. Harlem Shake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

You may think you are an expert in your domain, but until you try to write things down in simple terms in a blog for other people, you don’t realize what you don’t know. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

They know that the money they invest may be lost. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. Make sure these people understand the nature of early-stage angel investing. How much do they like to invest? In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Whether it be taking in information, learning, executing, or increasing our output, or investing it into relationships and health, this is the goal for the time we gained. Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A while back I received a frantic phone call from the CEO of a company in which I invested. We showed the journalist exact examples across 5 or 6 of the most popular web properties on the Internet. They were about to write a blog post defending the privacy issue and calling out why that journalist misunderstood the story.

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MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. Summary notes, as always, provide below. It was a pleasure to write them myself. Bill doesn’t think you should over invest in them but he does believe in protecting ideas when you have a true invention and many of his companies have done so.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. The video can be watched here , but there is a most excellent summary below provided by John Excley. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Quigo set up a system on specific web pages. Thank you, John.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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