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How This Entrepreneur Went From Poverty To CEO Of A Dead Sexy Startup

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Don began by explaining that his impoverished childhood drove him to a life as an entrepreneur. ". I had never thought about being an entrepreneur. So… I ate a piece of humble pie… (and) I started ingesting information about how to run a technology startup. I grew up ridiculously poor. We pushed it in a corner to keep it up.

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Insights and Opinions: Lessons From Launching 3 Companies

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For our Insights and Opinions section today, we are featuring a podcast from Andrew Warner founder of Mixergy, which runs a popular series of technology networking events in Los Angeles. Dont start with your masterpiece. When he launched eteamz, Brians vision was for a comprehensive site that organized youth sports.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

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-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

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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. Andrew Warner from Mixergy is doing it. Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. It’s not for most.

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Attention Startups! Startup Demo Hits Social Media Week

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On top of all the awesome mentioned above, Mixergy and AsAble will be hosting an Investor panel discussion. Please join us for an evening of fun mingling with other startups, VCs, Angels, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts, as we host our first Startup Demo event in Los Angeles. to 11:00 p.m. startupdemo.

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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

Tech Zulu Event

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. Producer of Mixergy & AsAble.com. We have a special treat for you.

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

Tech Zulu Event

Producer of Mixergy & AsAble.com. CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. A co-working space based out of Santa Monica, CA, Coloft feels that Entrepreneurs are of a different breed; put them in a room together, and they are just that much more effective.