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Miami: A hot spot for venture capitalists

David Teten

(from my guest column in the Miami Herald ). A few weeks ago, I had my first-ever opportunity to visit the Miami startup ecosystem. You might assume the event took place in Sao Paolo or Mexico City, but no, it was in Miami, and will be again in 2014. The decision to host the conference in Miami is hardly unfounded.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. And so it was that I pushed to get jobs in LA, Miami, Rome, Barcelona, the South of France, London and Tokyo. I got to experience much of the local culture and customs.

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Founder Interview: Salo Sterental, Co-Founder of SoStereo, Marketing with Music

The Startup Magazine

After college, I moved on to a post at BMG while Salo went to Miami to work with songwriters from Sony and Warner. Salo: I’m an avid sports fan of all of the Miami teams, and I love to take lessons from sports culture and building championship teams and applying that to our business. The Zumba instructors loved it!

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Focus on Existing Assets to Generate Better Marketing Results

Duct Tape Marketing

A serial entrepreneur, Gudema’s previous venture was the internet marketing company Magic Hour Communications, which he grew to one of the top companies in the national Web SaaS market before selling the agency in 2009. Questions I ask Louis Gudema: How can business owners better market to their existing customer base?

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group.

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Bitesize Monday: Indian Summer in Israeli VC funding (Takadu, Celeno, Superfish, Headway, Real Match)

VC Cafe

The Firefox and Internet Explorer browser add-on allows users to search for images instead of text to find a broad range of similar products across thousands of sites simultaneously. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ].

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Bitesize Monday: Indian Summer in Israeli VC funding (Takadu, Celeno, Superfish, Headway, Real Match)

VC Cafe

The Firefox and Internet Explorer browser add-on allows users to search for images instead of text to find a broad range of similar products across thousands of sites simultaneously. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ].