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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

InfoChachkie

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. When one considers the 400 richest people on the entire planet, the percentage of non-college graduates doubles.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days. Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market. How can you practice timing?

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How I Promise You One of the Most Meaningful Days of Your Life

Both Sides of the Table

Defy teaches them personal finance like how to keep a checking account, the difference between debt and equity, what cashflow is and so forth. But if you commit one simple day of your life I literally promise you that you will email or Tweet me a “thank you” and tell me you’ve been moved. Yeah, yeah, whatever Mike. Sure, I’ll meet her.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. It was great to relive a moment when I was in my dorm room at Harvard and watching Toy Story 3 on my laptop and seeing something that we built with no cash, just sweat equity. What problem were you trying to solve?

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Pipeline Fellowship | Raising Women to Become Investors

Tech Zulu Event

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies. My feedback to them is, they offered to connect with you and I encourage you to send them an email.

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