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The One Video Every Silicon Valley Investor Should Watch

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From left to right above is Tristan Walker (founder of Walker & Co), Magic Johnson (successful NBA basketball player and successful business man – his two life goals), Beatriz Acevedo (founder of Mitu, the largest Latino digital media company) and Troy Carter (founder of Atom Factory and Cross Culture Ventures). ” Too right.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? He mostly covers Southern California. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California. Anyone who does IP law in Southern California seems to use Knobbe Martens.

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Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation

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Still, his factual comments are tone deaf because they are lost in translation as they are amplified in the media and we have a responsibility to call that out and not tolerate bias. They live in this wonderful melting pot called California where we accept people who are different because … very few of us are native to this land.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. How to Interpret Analyst Reports. Stats sell. The stats are often quoted from the latest reports. People then parrot them around like they’re fact when most of them are complete bullsh*t. People throw them around at cocktail parties.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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He built & IPOd Demand Media. LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.