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Entrepreneurs Beware. Yahoo Buyout Could Kill Technology Startups? Advice: Be...

Entrepreneurs beware Microsoft buying Yahoo could shut down the tech startup scene.  It could send the startup climate back to 2001 levels – nuclear winter shut down.  I lived through 2001-2004.  It...

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Techonomics During War Time = Expansion – Impact on Entrepreneurs

Marc Andreessen wrote a post on the impact to Silicon Valley if Microsoft and Yahoo buyout happens.    I believe that this massive war is changing the landscape but in a positive way.   This tech war...

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Wanted: Any Yahoo Social Networking and Social Graph Product Mgrs and Engineers

Attention Fresh Ex-Yahoo employees or future Ex Yahoo employees. I am looking for product and engineering startup employees for my upcoming startup. This is a pure startup opportunity in Palo Alto....

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Entrepreneur Psychoanalysis Report from INSEAD

Human Resource Management, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; The European Institute for Business Administration (INSEAD), Boulevard de Constance, 77305 Fontainebleau Cedex, France. Paul Kedrosky...

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HP Trying to Leverage HP Labs – A Good Strategy

Eric Savitz has a great blog post on HP Labs new focus.  According to a release the company is issuing today, HP Labs will zero in on 20-30 large research projects, rather than the 150 or smaller...

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Social Everything: Interaction and Integration – The Future of Social...

For the past three years I’ve been working with over 40 corporate advertisers in developing, testing, deploying, and measuring social media. I’ve discovered many things and learning more everyday.  As...

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Are Web 2.0 Entrepreneur’s Love Affair with Venture Capital Over

Cnet has a story headline “Is venture capital’s love affair with Web 2.0 over?”- Ironic?? According to this massive trend 2007 deals are down an amazing amount – total deal numbers down an amazing 5....

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VC Credibility and Founder Credibility – It’s a Marriage

Getting financed by a VC is a marriage.  When it doesn’t work out it’s a divorce. Josh Kopelman writes a great post on entrepreneurs pitching him.  He talks about Founder Credibility.  It works the...

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Tech Entrepreneurship Recession – Microsoft Yahoo – Tea Leaves;

War! What is it good for! Absolutely nothing! – Say it again! Are wars really good for business? Is tech entrepreneurship in recession heading toward depression? The battle between Microsoft and Yahoo...

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Why Startups Fail? Entrepreneurs Perspective – Keep the Founder Around

Why do startups fail? There are many reasons. Here is a post from a VC in Silicon Valley called VCDave – David Feinleib is a partner at MDV – Mohr Davidow Ventures – He invests in Internet-enabled...

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“Apples and Googles” More Like “Apples and Pears”– Bad News for...

All the talk about companies being sold, founders getting ousted, and ventures failing or being killed by VCs. This seems to be the trend in Silicon Valley and around the world. The captial markets are...

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Demo Gods Are Watching – 10 Ways to Demo Your Product

Over at Techcrunch Mike and Jason are busy guys and they run a new event for hot startups.  They’ve seen their share of demos.  They share their observations on how to demo your product – what to do...

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Venture Capital and the Modern Startup – Building a Company is a Team Sport

A post today called Fuck the VCs caught my attention. I’ve been a full time entrepreneurs for over 10 years now and have tons of experience with VCs.  Heck alot of my friends are VCs – “not that there...

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New Startup Model – Young Grasshoppers Out There Watch How Andy Bechtolsheim...

UPDATE FROM SUN:  see comments below; Sun PR is saying that Andy will remain at SUN as an employee part-time.  The question is can Andy serve both masters?  Is Andy even needed there or is he a...

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New Venture Capital Model Is Coming? Limited Partner Investors Seeking New...

NOTE:  Visit the siliconANGLE blog for a community of bloggers on Social Web and Technology Opinion and Analysis.  THANKS Is this financial market mess going to put the nail in the venture community?...

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Recession Startups: Great Post On Innovation and Entrepreneurship – No...

I love this post from David Hornik.  I guess that I have an addiction because I love starting companies – I can’t help myself.  His real message is simple – many entrepreneur friends are starting...

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Silicon Valley in Trouble? I Don’t Think So – A New Model Will Arrive

Comparing Silicon Valley to Detroit is ridiculous, but Dan Lyons does bring up a big issue worth discussing – innovation problem. Silicon Valley is not setup for long term research in a way that made...

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