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Reflections of America this July 4th

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July 4th is a special date in America. America is a place that has always welcomed the best from around the world. I invested in a company whose goal is to bring low-cost computing to inner-city schools in America. And get a feeling for the rest of the country. But in America nobody ever asked me where my dad came from.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. of Elon’s ideas to come to fruition and let him fail on the rest. I’d love even 0.5%

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How I Gamified My Own Brain to Lose Weight & Improve Fitness

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The rest will come easier.” I had just gotten used to the artificial things we do to our foods in America that my brain was out of whack. This is when you’re going to get the benefit from the hard work you already put in.” It’s amazing what mental coaching can do for a workout. “A A calm mind is a calm heart and calm muscles.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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He not only has experience in dealing with the carriers where at JAMDAT he established all the carrier relationships but he also led the international expansion of JAMDAT in Europe, Asia & South America giving them a footprint in 40 countries. If you’re interested the rest of the management team is listed here.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. It’s no accident that 1 out of every 25 employees in America work in call centers. That alone is pretty compelling. 61% of mobile searches in which a customer contacted a vendor, a phone call was generated. The quote comes from Google.

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Making The Most out of Sitting on Panels

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I sat on two panels in the past week – once at LeadsCon (** see appendix if you’re interested in a back story here) and today at the America’s Growth Capital conference. It serves as a great conversation piece to meet people the rest of the conference. I have written about the topic of sitting on panels before.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.