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Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It: How The Three Little Pigs, Illiterate Miners and Pink Floyd Guided One Entrepreneur’s Journey

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What intrigued me was the fact that the pigs left the comfort of their home and entered the “wide world” to “seek their fortunes.”. A 1909 version of the story describes the mother pig as calling, “her sons to her, and, with tears in her eyes, told them that she must send them out into the wide world to seek their fortune.”.

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Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It: How The Three Little Pigs, Illiterate Miners and Pink Floyd Guided One Entrepreneur’s Journey

InfoChachkie

What intrigued me was the fact that the pigs left the comfort of their home and entered the “wide world” to “seek their fortunes.”. A 1909 version of the story describes the mother pig as calling, “her sons to her, and, with tears in her eyes, told them that she must send them out into the wide world to seek their fortune.”.

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Clearstone Tops CalPERS IRR List

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percent IRR for the La Jolla fund, vintage year 2007. An easily parsable version of the CalPERS data was provided by Fortune earlier this week. Second on the returns list was Avalon Ventures VIII, L.P. CalPERS has been required to release its IRR and performance data since 2002. READ MORE>>.

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Report: SpaceX Still Needs $1 Billion To Reach Goals, Despite Successful Launch

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The firm--which saw a successful launch of its Falcon 9 spacecraft into orbit Friday--apparently has nearly run out of cash a number of times between mid-2007 and mid-2009, the WSJ said, citing interviews with Musk in March. Musk, who made his fortune from PayPal, is also behind high-flying electric car firm Tesla Motors. READ MORE>>.

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Covario: Paid Search Spending Up

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Covario has been tracking paid search spending since Q1 of 2007, using data derived from 20 of its own, Fortune 500 clients. Covario attributed some of the gain in paid search spending to "back to school" campaigns in the consumer market. READ MORE>>.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

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Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007.

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Chrome River: Building An Enterprise Software Leader In LA, with Dave Terry

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It's software-as-a-service based, and we have organizations worldwide, from very small companies, to 100 employees and up, to Fortune 500 companies, across a wide variety of industries. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. Dave Terry: We've been very fortune.

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