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JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive. And what I mean is, I told this story in a blog post I wrote called, “ Is It Time to Earn or Is It Time to Learn ?” What’s not?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. I’ve talked many times on my blog about how they’re the lifeblood of most businesses – even those that pretend like they’re above it all. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. Founder of IBM – an entrepreneur who felt that the world only needed a handful of computers. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. Has nothing changed since the early days of IBM? but: Something is Still Missing.

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MAY 5, 2011

I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams.

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