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Why Wall Street Can’t Be Trusted and What to Do About It

Growthink Blog

We then reviewed the various approaches to gain exposure to this return potential: Investing directly in operating companies, doing so through a Venture Capital Fund , or “Doing as Warren Does" and utilizing “ The Berkshire Approach ” of investing in an operating company that in turn invests in other operating companies.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Can VCs Be Value Investors?

Seeing Both Sides

The latest printing, the sixth edition, contains a foreward from the Oracle of Omaha himself as well as a preface from hedge fund investor Seth Klarman of The Baupost Group , regarded by many to be one of the modern masters in the art of value investing. Sadly, they don’t. .

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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.&# Threadless, 37Signals, FeedBurner, BIG Omaha conference, and SXSW itself are proof that technology life exists away from the coasts.