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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Venture Capital.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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So why would raising venture capital be any different. And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). I call it “ marketing heroes” and I wrote about it here. And I went to Stanford so my network is there.”

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