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A Must Read Book for the Educated Class

Both Sides of the Table

His youth was surrounded by family members who struggled with substance abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy and lack of social mobility. The book is a memoir about an improbable journey from the working-class Hillbilly roots of Appalachia to the elite corridors of one of the top law schools in the US and the world of venture capital.

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Are you at risk for tech killing your job?

Berkonomics

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. And only one percent of these who had access also had mobile phones. And how about the new jobs to be created for “prompt-masters” and others manipulating or analyzing or checking AI query results.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Snap investment Hardworkers.

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6 Funding Resources For Ideas Needing More Validation

Startup Professionals Musings

If this is your first foray into the entrepreneurial arena, with no track record in business or technology, your best and perhaps only supporters will be that class of investors known in the trade as friends, family and fools (FFF). Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology. Marty Zwilling

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

Both Sides of the Table

I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. But the narrative in the press about Al Gore was that he was a smarmy know-it-all. They wrote about his verbal fumbles. Before that he was a US senator.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

Tech Zulu Event

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. And build great business they have.

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