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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

InfoChachkie

I thought this post might be of interest to some of my readers, as it offers a glimpse into my approach to teaching entrepreneurship. . Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO.

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Interview with Sam Teller, LaunchpadLA

socalTECH

For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? For two years, it was a mentorship program, that worked with twenty three different companies, but did not have a fund, did not have an office, and didn't take any equity. Then, it turned out, all of those companies did really well. Our current class has performed incredibly well.

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The most important person on the startup team

Berkonomics

Since Bill Hewlett joined with Dave Packard in 1939 to create what is today one of the world’s largest computer companies, there has been an evergreen debate as to who is more important in starting a tech company: the techie or the business guy? founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

Both Sides of the Table

If you take 2,000 of the world’s top performing companies, only 29 (1.5%) are run by women. It’s a fact, women aren’t good at running companies. If they were they’d be running more successful companies. They must be languishing by running many unsuccessful companies. Data doesn’t lie.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. TreeHouse is also a video company. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. He sold both companies.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. No, the question is: What are doing now knowing that a big company will copy your idea?

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