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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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With major media sites such as NYTimes.com joining the movement, now over half of all web requests are served securely to the browser. Until very recently, setting up HTTPS meant purchasing and managing certificates and configuring them correctly to work with your web server. Certificate management had to become cheap and easy.

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The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

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Designate one person in charge of managing the hackathon. The Hackathon manager should come up with an easy way to manage the team list (hint – wiki). The hackathon manager is responsible for coordinating all of this, including the mechanism for judging. Here’s how: Pick a date during the quarter for the hackathon.

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The Circle

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.” We’ve taken Peter Drucker’s famous quote “‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” to an absurd extreme in the tech business. We’ve somehow elevated social media metrics to the same level as money in the context of self-worth.

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Trying a “No Scheduled Meeting” Week

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I was going to take a week off the grid next week, but I’ve got a bunch of podcasts and media recordings to do for my upcoming book The Startup Community Way. I often feel oppressed by my calendar and I’ve tried lots of different approaches to managing it. And I have a few Foundry things to do.

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Book: Digital Minimalism

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Newport is famous for being a millennial, computer scientist, and a book author who doesn’t have a social media account. Digital Minimalism is complementary to Jaron Lanier ‘s book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now , but I found Newport a lot more comfortable and convincing.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital. National Demographics: Mailing Lists.

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Eric Ries’ Foreword to The Startup Community Way

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Every startup is unique, unpredictable, and unstable, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be managed for success, provided it’s the right kind of management. The same is true of every startup community. That’s the subject of Brad’s book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City.

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