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

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I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. He then helps readers evaluate their results with some amusing “grades.”

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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. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Enter phone calls. What we’ve heard even more than email is dead is that people don’t make phone calls anymore.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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Some data like those in the studies I mentioned above might help influence our thinking but the answer is, in the end, subjective. 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. I don’t think so.&#

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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. You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. It is this reminder that helps me form my internal compass and not hide behind a fortress. It is this reminder that helps me form my internal compass and not hide behind a fortress.

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Are You an Entrepreneur?

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it is often helpful to look into your past. Excel at classes that interested you and perform poorly in those which did not. As noted in Your Personal Pitch , people enjoy helping appreciative people who are in need. Is it because they read a passage in a self-help book that told them to ‘wish away’ failure? –

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Venture Outlook 2016

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Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. My presentation from the Summit can be downloaded here and the embed is below but the summary message is the rest of this blog post. Are LPs to blame? None of these.