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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

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In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. The kind words I receive in comments, Tweets and emails are highly motivational and most appreciated.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. According to Marten, "Suddenly, when we were building our business and we thought that this very vital component of our product would be part of us, suddenly it was owned by one of our competitors. Share and Enjoy.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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I suffer from the “urgency addiction.&# I know it sounds like one of the falsely humble things like telling somebody in a job interview that your weakness is that you’re too much of a perfectionist. It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. I’m not. It’s hard to hide.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver.