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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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This article previously appeared in Forbes. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Engagement.

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

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I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management&# at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate&# story. The short article in Fast Company is here if you’d like to read it. Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

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This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Partisan rancor aside, we had just come off a boom decade – especially in tech – and many people at the start of the election thought Al Gore was a shoe in. Whenever I think of messages to communicate I always start by thinking about the audience. It is election season.

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

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If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. If you are curious as to why a serial entrepreneur who does not generally appreciate business books gives Enchantment a thumbs-up, read on….

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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I grew up believing that human behavior was 20% nature, 80% nurture. Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made.&# The data in this article is at best, a stretch. of all data is made up. OK, not literally made up. The paper is surprisingly much more balanced in its assertions than this TechCrunch article.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. As Guy notes in the accompanying video interview, his primary goal with Enchantment is to reach a broader audience, beyond the high-tech, startup world. free weekly Infochachkie articles! That doesn’t work.”. Basically, everything is free.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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The videos on our web site have some proprietary techniques you can't find elsewhere, and we have thousands of heavy science videos on the site -- everything from Nobel prize winners, to National Geographic, to class videos on science and related to science, and even to things students are doing in high school.

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