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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats. She said, “Dad, one of the great things you and Mom did was never tell us how much things cost.” Now that I’m older, I’m starting to know what things cost.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Here are some of the final Lessons Learned presentations and team videos: Akara Solutions: Flexible, Low Cost Cooling Technology for LED Lighting. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. Principal Investigator: Ellis Meng University of Southern California. Syllabus for the class is here. Textbook is here.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. California. Connecticut. Low Cost Franchises. California.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

You could actually be scouting new clients in Bogota while doing work with most of your clients in California. If you have to pay your own rent in addition to company costs and that kind of thing sometimes the amount of money that the company makes is going to dictate how much you make at the end of the month. Is that fair?

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We are the greed we protest against #occupywallst

This is going to be BIG.

I just finished reading this sobering account of California's municipal economic woes written by Michael Lewis--an account of a society completely unwilling to self-regulate, and on a straight path to financial and cultural bankruptcy. credit: Marion Siegel Yes, cultural. At least lotteries are financially solvant.