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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. Let me give you an example. If you take 2,000 of the world’s top performing companies, only 29 (1.5%) are run by women.

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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. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company.

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

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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. Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances. Zone of Effectiveness – The examples that Covey talks about here are things like exercise and planning.

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The Customer May Not Always Be Right, But You Had Better Listen Just The Same

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On opposite pages were two ads for two very large companies. The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. The result is that I, the reader, had no interest in what was being sold in the ad yet I am a consumer in both verticals. And that was what had caught my attention.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

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Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. The travel companies offer brochures showing private beaches and phenomenal sights. You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. 10 Blogging Tips. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership.

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