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Book: The Startup Game

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After writing Do More Faster with David Cohen, I have deep appreciation for the effort involved in writing a book. After reading a bunch of entrepreneurship books, I’ve decided there are three categories: (a) autobiographies, (b) consultant roadmaps, and (c) practitioner stories. I like the practitioner stories best, followed closely by autobiographies.

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Who’s LOLing Now?

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Today we announced that Foundry Group took a bite out of Cheezburger as we led a $ 30m financing of the company that started out by bringing your cute cate pictures. Ever since I met Ben Huh 18 months ago via an introduction from Micah Baldwin (see Micah – I do take you seriously – some of the time) I’ve had a major entrepreneur-crush (sort of like a man-crush, but, well, you get the idea) on Ben.

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Entrepreneurs Unplugged With Pete Sheinbaum on 1/24/10

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It’s time for Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged to start up again. In case you don’t know what this is, I moderate a monthly interview series each semester with Brad Bernthal. We co-interview successful entrepreneurs – most of them local (Boulder / Denver). These interviews are done Charlie Rose style (one can dream) and generally last an hour followed by some Q&A.

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Blur Conference Day 1 Is Looking Awesome

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The next Eric Norlin conference is Blur and is happening in Orlando, Florida (yay – warm) on February 22 and 23. I’ll be there along with my three Foundry Group partners Seth , Ryan , and Jason exploring the future of human computer interaction. While I’ve written about the development of Blur, Eric just put up a blog post describing the first day.

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The Quora For X

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Suddenly the VC/entrepreneur meme for Q1-2011 is “The Quora for X.&# Here are two examples from the past few days: Google Ventures Leads $ 600K Investment In LawPivot, A Quora For Startup Legal Advice. Hipster Is Quora Plus Location – Or Q&A For Where You Are. Lest you think this is a TechCrunch phenomenon, I’ve received a half dozen emails in the last week pitching companies as “Quora for X&# or some derivative of this (often “The Quora for X&# ).

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