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Why Don’t We Make Learning A Computer Language A Requirement In High School?

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Once a year Howard Lindzon gets together a bunch of his friends at the intersection of financing, tech, media, and entrepreneurship, we descend on The Del in Coronada, and have an awesome 48 hours together. I spent this weekend at LindzonPalooza.

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Book: Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

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After the election, I took a break from social media. Bill Browder’s Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice is one of the best books I’ve read this year. Prior to this election cycle I rarely read online news and almost never watched news on TV, so that was easy to stop as well.

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Get Ready For Q115 Fundraising Insanity

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As we enter the time of year where every media-related thingy publishes it’s “best of 2014″ and “predictions for 2015″ lists, I simply pass on participating in all of them and read none of them. The number of large, “later stage” financings are remarkable – both in size and velocity.

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Transparent Funding Announcements

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No understanding of the human dynamics behind the financing. No underlying metrics that drive the financing. Recently, the gang at SalesLoft told the detailed story of their $10m financing. After he posted it, he sent around the link to a few prominent people in the tech media. financing of Mattermark.

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Financial Literacy

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The commentary by politicians, economists, and the media on the European debt crisis and the US debt ceiling dynamics is appalling. And more and more entrepreneurs who I’m exposed to who are presenting their companies for financing have a complete lack of understanding of their financials – both current and projected.

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New Online Courses From Sympoz On Starting A Company

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This is a bidirectional experiment for us – we are helping Sympoz launch their new set of programs for startups and entrepreneurs while continuing to experiment with new forms of media around education on a topic we know well. My class, How To Light a Spark & Set Your Startup on Fire , is FREE for a limited time.

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Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Tyler Tysdal

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Tysdal founded a private equity firm primarily focused on healthcare, media & entertainment and secondarily on real estate and construction services. Brown & Sons, focused on corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Tysdal is also the founder of Sports Shares, a fractional luxury suite club.