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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare?

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Toronto Based Start Up Readitfor.me | Reads Books for You

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Whether it be taking in information, learning, executing, or increasing our output, or investing it into relationships and health, this is the goal for the time we gained. In most offices there would be a shelf of business books. Since, I am constantly reading to learn I would always ask questions about advice from the books.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 2.0. We will seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. cheap accessible digital hardware]. We all wanted intros.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. This is one book-end of the cycle. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So did the media.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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The future of TV will follow the rule of Deflationary Economics as I outline influenced by the book The Innovator’s Dilemma. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka. I didn’t end up investing but I always loved the concept. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. event I did last fall. Its more focused and more professional than many discussion forums.

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