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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Previously, I had worked in creating shrink-wrapped software products for 10 years and then headed a dotcom venture which failed.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore. Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman

Duct Tape Marketing

And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. I analyzed all the, all of the letters, put them through software tools. If you look at readability statistics or readability software, it's measured by grade level.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. That’s massive.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

Ross and I will be speaking at South by Southwest again this year and hope that you’ll join us there for our talk titled “ Third Coast: How to Be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# Yet entrepreneurs still obsess over traditional big meeting/big money Silicon Valley venture capital.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

Both Sides of the Table

Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. If you’re an OEM who wants to move more hardware but you don’t have the muscle to create an entire media ecosystem then you’re best off finding a partner who can build a software OS, app platform and search capabilities. They both gained.