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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

InfoChachkie

The short version of my review is: “Enchanting? I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. At the beginning of the index, Guy writes, “I hope Robert Cialdini checks this index.” Fan, Not A Fan Boy. No doubt, he did. Positive ROI.

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Told She Would Never Walk, This Entrepreneur Danced

InfoChachkie

Tracy DiNunzio, Founder and CEO of Tradesy , recently shared her insights as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Her story is especially inspiring, as she was told as a child that she would never walk, due to a birth defect. Write them down and challenge each of them, with objective facts.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

InfoChachkie

Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. My Forbes co-contributor Geri Stengel concurs that something is happening in the Volunteer State, writing last month about that state’s emerging women entrepreneurs. Bringing an accelerators’ graduates back as mentors provides value to the next class, certainly.

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10 Step Checklist To Rank Your Startup Ideas

InfoChachkie

Steven Johnson, author of How We Got To Now , analyzes technological breakthroughs, looking for patterns that allow entrepreneurs to identify “How We’ll Get To Tomorrow.” We all have hunches, but if we do not diligently document them, we risk losing them. The more you play around with ideas and you write them down, the better.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. So things that have to be done early get done early, but only at the last possible moment that the early task is due. It also applies to other parts of my life such as presentations. I couldn’t.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

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We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. For parents, if you're interested in how your kids are doing, you can find out what their schedule is like, what homework is due when, what their grades are, and how they are progressing, plus you can communicate with their teachers.

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