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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Shane Kenny, founder of Filtersnap. In 1999, my brother Aaron and I started InternetSafety.com. In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. The best part was that it was a blind review.

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The Decade in Tech

Start Up Blog

It’s pretty easy to forget how much a new technology changes our lives once it’s adopted. Sure, some new technologies are like shooting stars, but some change everything forever. The problem was this created a dangerous idolatry of any innovation big tech companies launched at us. power than elected governments.

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Governance Models That Don’t Scale: The World According to Charles T. Munger and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Pascal's View

Can you name five successful, long serving CEO’s (excluding Warren Buffett ) whose governance histories are free of the “high-beta” associated with outliers such as Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs ? It is in this context that I found “Corporate Governance According to Charles T. It’s not easy. Can these be separated?

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. And when you further strip out any employment created by government stimulus that is uncertain to continue going forward we know that the country is not creating enough jobs. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#. Sound familiar?

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Culture?

Austin Startup

To be honest, it’s kind of the same for Silicon Valley, New York, Berlin, Tallinn, Stockholm, or any other place that has become a noteworthy tech hub. The quantity of folks who have moved to Austin for university or due to the recent tech boom means that everybody’s there to help out a new recruit.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Edition Home.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Johnni Kjelsgaard Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica. John Kieti Team Lead at m:lab.

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