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Want To Be A TechStar? Read Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson’s New Book: Venture Deals

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I recently reviewed Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson’s book Venture Deals , in THIS ENTRY. I have subsequently recommended the book to number of students as well as emerging entrepreneurs, all of whom expressed positive feedback. . Writing a book is very different from writing a blog. It falls into three categories.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 provides you.

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7 Mindsets for Succeeding as an Aspiring Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

In that context, I was pleased with the guidance and real data presented in a new book, “ Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution ,” by Uri Levine. You have to cater to many different user categories. The biggest challenge is that a user from one category can’t even realize that there are other users not like them.

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Presenting the Lunch Awards!

Tech Zulu Event

Awards will be given in more than a dozen categories, including the best reviews of movies, books, hotels, gadgets, politics, as well as the most helpful, thought-provoking, fun to read and well-organized reviews.

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

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The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. It also applies to other parts of my life such as presentations.

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How ReachLocal Wants To Own The Consumer Transaction

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However, the Woodland Hills-based firm isn't satisfied with stopping there--it now wants to own the entire transaction--from finding a local service provider, to booking an appointment with that provider, to presenting estimates, invoices, and collecting payments, and has launched a whole set of products in that area yesterday.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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” The local kennels were full as many people had pre-booked for vacations. ” I wrote about this movement in the link to the left and also published this widely read presentation on the topic. ” Booked it. I said, “This category is going to be huge. “Oh s**t.” What to do?