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Fight for balance on your board!

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Some board members find themselves debating whether there should be an expansion from five to seven, from seven to nine or more to allow for such a mixture of protective seats created by the investment documents and balance with outside board members. How about the size of the board?

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

InfoChachkie

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. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Drop Everything And Do What Your Boss Asks.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

Both Sides of the Table

There have been many studies done on the topic including looking at twins raised in separate families. There have been studies of adopted children to their natural parents versus the parents that raised them. I have also seen studies on “birth order.&#. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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Music Prodigy Beats 70 Startups To Bring Music Education Technology to the Masses

Tech Zulu Event

The app beat 70 other start-ups focused on innovation in digital media and technology to win the first place at the Silicon Beach Awards hosted by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California. It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award.

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codeSpark:Teaching Kids Software Coding Without Words

socalTECH

The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class. The study of computer science brings broad based benefits, beyond the subject. Grant Hosford: I was working at Idealab, for Bill Gross, when I had the idea. Being a day, I wanted to help his daughter.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

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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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

Both Sides of the Table

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I was the guy in high school who didn’t have to study early to do well on tests and that continued into college. I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies.

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