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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. But that's not what founder Chris Lindland had in mind for BetaBrand, an online clothing company. A good way to think about market segment is by thinking about fishing.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica.

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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

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I’ve met Sam several times and each time I’ve been at an event with him I’ve heard his opening line, “My name is Sam Jones. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. My name is Sam Jones. I buy dead magazines.”

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin. We onboarded a guy named Mike Flowers. Eric Ries : Please name some names.