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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. While this is not the end-goal we had in mind, in so many ways this venture was incredibly successful.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Dancing Around the Question Union Square Ventures was kind enough to sponsor a meetup the night before my class. Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. If a perfect substitute can be launched for a product you often see the retailer create a white-labeled version because it then captures all of the margin.

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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

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. They are now operating in nine States.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

mashable.com

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Venture Hacks Angel List â?? Raising Venture Capital. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Venture Hacks equity section. About VC Cafe. VC & Startup Resources.