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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

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I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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

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I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. Americans watch 5.3 We read less than an hour / day.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications.