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Fragile: Sage Observation from Paul Graham

  I love reading Paul Graham.  Heck, everyone loves reading Paul Graham’s writings on entrepreneurship and investing.  The two best thing things about the Y-Combinator founder’s essays are:  1) They are intensely insightful – from his broad and deep understanding of the startup experience, and 2) They are indeed essays as

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Interview at Arizona Innovation Summit

  After I spoke about Crowdfunding:  Past, Present and Future, at the Arizona Innovation Summit, FunditTV decided to conduct a video interview.   During the interview, I talk a bit about my new Crowdfunding initiative, called Propel Arizona.

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Entrepreneurship

Ideas: Worthless? Priceless? or 12 for a Dime?

I can predict it with near certainty. In every single conversation I have with an entrepreneur, or rather with a first-time entrepreneur, it becomes very apparent they place an comically high value on the one, single, good idea that they have. Whether they say it out loud (“this is a

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Foursquare member #39,755

I got an email from Foursquare a few weeks ago, that started off with: First off, thanks for believing in our little startup as we try to build an awesome service for you. You were one of the first hundred thousand members of our community (to be exact, you’re member

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Killed by tech

Even if you are under 30 or even under 25, most of us don’t realize for forget how much technology has changed our lives and society in such an incredibly short time. This video really makes the point with some familiar examples: Killed by Tech via @equalman – YouTube

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