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Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. The Anti-Social Era: Lessons Learned from Vimeo Founder Jake Lodwick – [link]. Your Brand is What You Do – [link].

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Entrepreneurial events firm Summit Series acquires Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort for $40m

The Next Web

Here, the 40-person Summit Series team, led by co-founders Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwartz, is anything but “settling down.” They connected Founders Fund to Spotify, which catalyzed the music service’s North American launch. There are no streetlights or stop lights in town.

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Solutions at the Eleventh Forbes Philanthropy Summit

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Water and Sanitation Crisis: Scalable Solutions Presented by Water.org and WaterEquity Cofounders Matt Damon and Gary White, cofounders of Water.org and WaterEquity, initiated the summit by discussing a critical worldwide issue: accessible capital. Tisch Illumination Fund.

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