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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

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I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. He then helps readers evaluate their results with some amusing “grades.”

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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

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I thought this post might be of interest to some of my readers, as it offers a glimpse into my approach to teaching entrepreneurship. . Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO.

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Mark Suster on Influence and Persuasion

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I recently read a book I'd highly recommend to every reader of this blog called "Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive” by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. If you are not already a subscriber of Mark’s Both Sides of the Table blog , you need to be.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

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I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Enter phone calls. What we’ve heard even more than email is dead is that people don’t make phone calls anymore.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. More Feedback, Less Neglect.

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