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How Most Young Entrepreneurs Appear to Investors

This is gem of a video: In front of a roomful of the best and the brightest investors (the Venture Capital Fundraising Club of Silicon Valley), here’s a vivid example of an investor pitch that seems to have all the right elements: Big vision. An energetic, articulate and likable young

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The Fallacy Against Crowdfunding

Recently Entrepreneur.com (the website for Entrepreneur Magazine) posted an opinion piece called: Why Crowdfunding is Bad for Business I encourage you to read the article in full. But I must say, I found the argument misinformed, to be kind. More bluntly – the argument and article were condescending, amateurish, and uninformed.

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Pete Rose Sighting

Took a quick family trip to Las Vegas last week (one of the advantages of living in Phoenix)- and spotted Pete Rose selling autographs at a memorabilia shop. Apparently no one else appreciated the irony of Pete Rose doing business in Vegas.

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Crowdsourcing

Community car-pooling platform connects owners with local renters

 I just love startups that combine the power of collective intelligence (crowdsourcing) with social and local.   There’s a goldmine of services yet to be invented., but here’s one! …   Community car-pooling platform connects owners with local renters | Springwise The Car Club enables car owners to earn money

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LeWeb – “Live Sketched”

Over the past many years I’ve developed a distaste for attending most conferences. While I love the camaraderie and exchange with colleagues and being privy to some cool and new companies – I have a deep cynicism for the conference “process”. Conferences often seem to be the purview of self-promoters

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Dilbert on Outsourcing

Actually I am somewhat a fan of “outsourcing”. That is – when a company decides not to expend time or energy on tasks that fall outside focus of their core business. I think outsourcing has gotten a bad rep, mainly because companies have either outsourced for the wrong reasons, or

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Killed by tech

Even if you are under 30 or even under 25, most of us don’t realize for forget how much technology has changed our lives and society in such an incredibly short time. This video really makes the point with some familiar examples: Killed by Tech via @equalman – YouTube

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Crowdsourcing

Body Shops

I like this startup idea though IMHO they probably are doing right thing for the wrong reason (not sure it matters in this case). The allows people to upload photos of their dented fenders etc. and have local bodyshops give estimates and bid on the repairs. It’s seems to be

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