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RIP Len Fassler

Feld Thoughts

It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.) Len loved to smoke a cigar.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Thats real money."

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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. Hopefully we will see you there! TechCrunch Disrupt NYC.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky has spoken extensively on the value of domain names and has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has been quoted by numerous print sources including Investors Business Daily , The New York Times and The Los Angeles Business Journal.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. Image Credit: Bess Heitner.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.