Dave McClure, the brash-mouthed angel investor and entrepreneur-magnet, shares his lean start-up philosophy and his excitement about female entrepreneurs. While the talk covered material fairly similar to what Ries discussed in the October issue of Inc. McClure is a magnet for entrepreneurs at SXSW. An example is 955 Dreams. MORE >>

My friend Jordan Cooper wrote an interesting post a few days ago about some of his predictions of the venture market in 2012. Really smart people end up writing thoughtful posts on the future of the venture market pretty much every year – and I often agree with many of them like I do Jordan’s. Valuation Discipline. MORE >>

The most successful entrepreneurs and executives I have seen are savvy business people first, and experts in their field second. This may seem counter-intuitive to technologists, especially in an era when technology seems to be driving the world. Learning is a never-ending requirement for every entrepreneur. Understand the business, then add value. MORE >>

Location-based apps are this year's SXSW GroupMe and Twitter. Zaarly and LocalMind are two to put on your radar. Location-based mobile technology is sweeping through SXSW this year. Certainly, there's no dearth of experts predicting that this is going to be a popular new field. But this article isn't about Highlight or Glancee. It's unclear. MORE >>

One could say a sperm is ambitious. It is competing against millions, and most likely it will die. If it wins however, it will fertilize the egg and stand a good chance of becoming a member of the dominant species on this planet. monkey is not that ambitious when he climbs a tree to eat bananas. But he will eat today. how about 100M?” MORE >>