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The Men of Pinterest

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Now that I think about it, I remember when we relaunched Myspace last year and the Pinterest team accused us of basically ripping off their layout. Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately. The inspiration for this blog post via a recent Tweet , Hunter is a force of good at Youtube and Google.

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Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept

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Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. MySpace flourished and left Friendster behind in part because they didn’t care about your identity. Think about it.

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

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” It’s like you hear about “mafia’s” of PayPal, Facebook, MySpace, Salesforce, etc. David is also frequently an inspiration for a story on my blog. This isn’t just to save on recruiting fees – it’s also about “getting the band back together.” Mafias matter.

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Are You Too Old To Start Being An Entrepreneur?

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Sites like MySpace already allow teens to customize their home base with graphics, blogs, and music to make it more attractive to their peers – that’s marketing. If your child is old enough to get on the Internet, he or she is old enough to start learning business skills.

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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. I has been asked to do the keynote speech at a dinner that night but of course hadn’t written a speech in advance. I’m not. I couldn’t carry on a conversation.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

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So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. What things did he experiment in the early days when there was no Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace to promote oneself?

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Here’s What President of textPlus @Nanea Reeves Has to Say on Leadership, Mgmt, Women in Tech

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Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Company Organization. Have a listen and see for yourself.