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Protected: draft Ontier Interview (for review)

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Protected: Business 454 presentations, part I and II

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Cal Poly Business School Team interviews web startup RememberItNow.com

Cal Poly Business School seniors Lelani Torres and Brandon LaRose prepare for a remote/Skype video interview with Web 2.0 startup RememberItNow.com.
The students are conducting interviews with entrepreneurs this quarter, as part of their 3rd-party independent market research, beta testing, and business model analysis for Startup Trek Television Inc.
The 36 students enrolled in “Business 454″, are [...]

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Protected: Raw footage (private page) – visit with Charles

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An open letter to Mr. Leo Laporte of TWIT.tv

Leo, I’m writing this open letter to you because i discovered your excellent, entertaining, but ultimately disconcerting TWIT.tv show today, due to all the unchallenged mis-statements coming out of Jason Crass-a-canis, CEO of Mahalo.com. I watched with a great degree of incredulousness, as you let Jason call myself, and 849 of my fellow Angel Investors [...]

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Jason’s partner Mike Arrington opens a new front in “Jason’s and Mike’s Jihad

No, it’s not just Jason Crassacanis who are angering good business people by “Trolling” them.  In their escalating war of rage against anyone else (besides them) who makes a profit while offering services on the internet, #1 technology business blogger Michael “Mike” Arrington (this PC World Article describes them both rather well) founder of TechCrunch.com [...]

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Serial Entrepreneur Ron Weiner fires back at Jason Calacanis, over “Jason’s Jihad”

Jason Calacanis’ Homework Assignment #2
The article below is a “required reading” homework assignment for Mr. Calacanis, as part of our custom lecture series desired to re-educated the boy, entitled “Jason’s Homework”.
After studying this article by Ron Weiner, Jason might gain an inkling towards a better understand what the Keiretsu Forum Angel investing network (the largest, [...]

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Steve Bell’s slides for “This Week in Startups” with Jason Calacanis

Photo and coverage, courteousy of Domain Noob <dot com>:

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Keiretsu Forum member and spokesperson Dennis Erokan enters statement responding to Jason Calacanis “Twitter war”

Nine years of helping entrepreneurs equals $200 MM in fundings for 200+ companies. Our track record speaks for itself.
We are not VCs. The Keiretsu Forum is a professionally managed association for Angel Investors. Keiretsu Forum is not the venue for every entrepreneur. With more than 200 fundings, we know we are filling a market need. [...]

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Wall Street Journal article: “Where Twitter ranks in Venture Capital (VC) History”

Are Venture Capitalists going to lose their shirts on Twitter?
Some historical perspective on the immense bet Venture Capitalists have made on Twitter:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/30/where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history/
This article shows how the odds are against Twitter returning funds to investors. Because Twitter falls into the zone of “VC insanity” Tulip-bulb style investing, circa the 1999 Nasdaq bubble.
We were big fans [...]

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