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

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. The truth about investment bankers. The reality is that the highly paid investment bankers are the sales people of their organizations simply extracting commissions.

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. The truth about investment bankers. The reality is that the highly paid investment bankers are the sales people of their organizations simply extracting commissions.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet. — Right out of college, Dave chased a dream of being rich, becoming an investment banker. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … Not just a problem in terms of access to technology. (It’s It’s all of these.).

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Rethinking why you have a job will help you understand the importance of finding a job that you love

Jeff Hilimire

You have a computer or access to a computer, you have internet access, so you’re already in a position of choice. I’ll leave you with this story to hammer home the point: An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Originally designed for investment bankers, it’s now also being used by VCs to help portfolio companies with fundraising.”. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. 10) Report.

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[Review] How China’s Leaders Think

YoungUpstarts

When Internet giant Google threatened to pull out of China in 2010, few were aware of the paradox that the Internet brings to China’s leaders beyond the political fodder. This transition can bring tensions that can be magnified by the power of the Internet. by Aaron Tan.