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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship – It's about the "How"

Entrepreneurship is a peculiar field. It’s unlike any other profession – accounting, engineering, sales, construction or even politics. When you say “I’m an accountant” people have a pretty good idea of what you do. The “what” is often the subject you study in school, or later become an ‘domain expert’

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Entrepreneurship

Getting it Right – Feld Thoughts

Entrepreneurial and Venture Capital thought leader Brad Feld offered the following pearl of wisdom: “I don’t want to see a powerpoint deck – I want to play with something. I don’t want to hear a description of what you do – I want to see a demo. I don’t want

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Articles

Fragile: Sage Observation from Paul Graham

  I love reading Paul Graham.  Heck, everyone loves reading Paul Graham’s writings on entrepreneurship and investing.  The two best thing things about the Y-Combinator founder’s essays are:  1) They are intensely insightful – from his broad and deep understanding of the startup experience, and 2) They are indeed essays as

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Business

Bad News for Arizona Entrepreneurs?

    Ordinarily it takes an act of God to make me spill a drop of my morning coffee, but reading the news this morning nearly caused a grand-mal seizure: “Jilted Kickstarter Backer Neil Singh Is Now An Assistant Attorney General Of Arizona”   My first, second and third reaction

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Articles

E-Procrastination: The 'Waiting for Superman' Syndrome

It was a brilliant observation from Tim Huntley of An Entrepreneurial Life, based on an exchange with an entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is stuck in some sort of circular-loop thinking preventing him and his team from making progress. In a rather rare display of self-awareness, the entrepreneur likens his dilemma to a

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