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andrevalente_

  1. #LeanLA Panel with representatives from 9 - count them, 9! - incubators. Tech entrepreneurship is definitely hapening in LA...
  2. Great fun at #TZSpotlight LA Tech Winter 2012 by @techzulu. Fantastic talk by @bill_gross. @foreigniq was a sponsor!
  3. Celebrated wedding anniversary at Le Comptoir/@garymenes - great food, curious setting = highly recommended
  4. @alexkravets Adapter is powered by FFmpeg, so I use Adapter for interactive use (much easier!) and FFmpeg for programmatic use.
  5. Adapter (free video converter macroplant.com/adapter) saved me huge amounts of hassle. Highly recommended.
  6. I'm not alone! Raph Koster proposes a technology strategy very similar to the one I adopted at Alelo and ForeignIQ raphkoster.com/2012/01/04/mak…
  7. Excellent piece by Steve Blank on how SOPA reflects the inability of the movie industry (and others...) to innovate steveblank.com/2012/01/04/why…
  8. App Sumo top 40 business books for web entrepreneurs - an excellent list, I have a bunch of them appsumo.com/~ssd0 via @appsumo
  9. Tried thetwitcleaner.com @twitcleaner - good idea if you follow a lot of people. They should also let you check yourself.
  10. Stay away from NoMoreRack. Borderline scam. Took weeks to deliver an order, customer service ignored my messages. Don't fall for it.
  11. Another symptom that the VC market (and the press) is focusing on pretty/sexy instead of creating value. blog.eloqua.com/sap-successfac…
  12. Excellent article by @eknopf2 on Quora on why e-commerce is a hot area in venture capital qr.ae/Sh
  13. This is what CyberMonday is really about: $250 of AppSumo Credit for $150 appsumo.com/~MQhM via @appsumo
  14. @ericries: make all startup performance reports measured in number of people - stuff you can actually understand