This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “How to Raise Venture Capital”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation where we bring in venture capitalists from the top firms across the country to talk about the process and requirements entrepreneurs need to go through to successfully raise money from venture capitalists.

This month’s session will be hosted by Jason Nazar (CEO, Docstoc.com), and we will be joined by Nate Redmond of Rustic Canyon, Josh Stein of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Thomas Ball of Austin Ventures, Jim Tybur of Trinity Ventures, and Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital. More panelists may be added and there will be a large showing of the los angeles venture and angel community in attendance.

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “How to Build a Great Technology Team”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about the experience, process and skills need to build an all-star caliber technology team.

We’ll be welcoming as our speakers: Alon Shwartz the Co-Founder/CTO of Docstoc, Nick Wilson the EVP/CTO of Break.com, Allen Hurff the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at MySpace, Travlin McCormack the CTO of Internships.com and former CTO of Slingshot Labs, and Nitu Gulati-Pauly Director of Recruiting at Cybercoders.

These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media. TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “How to Persuade People”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about the skills and techniques leaders use to influence others .

This month the session will be run by Jason Nazar, in a presentation format. The “How to Persuade People” presentation will be geared towards startups and entrepreneurs to learn and review the skills that will help them raise money, hire great talent, and land partnerships.

Because of Diet Coke and Matt Cutts I’m going to give to charity every day for the next 30 days…

A month and a half ago I made a bet with Sanaz that I’d stay off diet coke for a week if she refrained from coffee for the same period of time. I’ve probably averaged 1-2 diet cokes a day since I was a teenager (for the taste people, clearly not the reduction of calories). Its been a month and I still haven’t had any any soda.

This got me thinking, “What should be my next 30 day challenge?” I’m not however the only, or first, techie leading the 30 day challenge charge. The impetus came from my friend Matt Cutts at Google who kicked started his own set of 30 day challenges last year.

Last evening I gave a presentation on Marketing and Publicity for Startups at the Founders Institute at their 2010 San Diego session.  Included below is the presentation I wrote and gave.  If you’re in the internet startup space and want to learn from the masters of Marketing and Publicity you should be following folks like [...]

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “Google Adsense for Websites”.  It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about how to best optimize and monetize your website with Google Adsense. We are joined this month by two senior members of the Google Adsense team from Mountain View, California who have worked with [...]

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on the “Building an Online Brand”.  It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about what it takes to build and grow an online brand that’s meant to last. We are joined this month by Sean Moriarty, the former CEO of TicketMaster.  During his time at Ticketmaster, [...]

This month (in lieu of our normally scheduled Startups Uncensored Series, which will resume in Jan ’10) we are hosting a very a mixer for Job Seekers and Los Angeles Tech Companies.  Docstoc is putting this event on with our friends at JobNob. Come meet a group of cool new start ups and talented job [...]

Anyone who has ever used a search engine knows that sometimes you just can’t find what you’re looking for. We know how frustrating it can be scourging through page after page of search results only to find that you can’t get what you’re looking for. Not wanting anyone to endure that horror on Docstoc, we’ve [...]

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on the “Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs”.  It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about what it takes to build a successful business and how to distinguish yourself as an entrepreneur. We are joined this month by Jason Calacanis the CEO of Mahalo, co-founder of Weblogs Inc [...]