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The most important person on the startup team

Berkonomics

accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. 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?

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

Both Sides of the Table

I grew up believing that human behavior was 20% nature, 80% nurture. of all data is made up. OK, not literally made up. I’m now a VC that funds entrepreneurs. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. Nature vs. Nurture.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

socalTECH

The firm is announcing a substantial Series D funding round today, so we spoke with the firm's CEO, Jason Howe, to get the details on the company and what it's doing. Congrats on funding. Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Both Sides of the Table

You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. You can have big offices and lavish houses. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. I had so many casual meet-ups with random people that I wanted to spend quality time with, like Naval Ravikant and Farb Nivi.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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