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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many founders are convinced they “need” equity financing, for the wrong reasons, as outlined in the book and supplemented with a bit of my own experience: Need employees and professional services. Of course, every company needs these, in due time. You need a prototype. You need specialized equipment.

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Don’t Look For Investors for All the Wrong Reasons

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many founders are convinced they “need” equity financing, for the wrong reasons, as outlined in the book and supplemented with a bit of my own experience: Need employees and professional services. Of course, every company needs these, in due time. You need a prototype. You need specialized equipment.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

Both Sides of the Table

It made me laugh because the technical world has this exact phrase to talk in computing sense about the need to block out interruptions in order to complete a task. Of course if I’m not ensconced in deep, thoughtful work then by all means I answer the call. I got rid of voicemail.

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Most Entrepreneurs Should Never Bring On Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many founders are convinced they “need” equity financing, for the wrong reasons, as outlined in the book and supplemented with a bit of my own experience: Need employees and professional services. Of course, every company needs these, in due time. You need a prototype. You need specialized equipment.

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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. You need these to add the human element to your business or service. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Of course the 4-hour work week and DL plan is a gross over generalization and meant to be shocking. And, of course, now Twitter.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.