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Thinking of Quitting? Don’t Let Survivor Bias Ruin Your Life

May 1, 2012

You may have missed Alyson Shontell‘s piece asking an answering the question When You Should Quit Being An Entrepreneur? I marked it when it first appeared earlier this year, then left it in the back burner. If you’re an entrepreneur, especially if you’re engaged in a startup and not yet rolling strong and on your own, [...]

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Friday Footprints: 5 Good Posts For July 8

July 8, 2011

First, my thanks to Catharina Belgraver for helping me come up with Friday Footprints, in response to my post here last Friday. Steve Tobak has a good one on the real secret to personal productivity on BNET. He lists what other people say on this subject, then gets down to his own formula. I remember [...]

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Angels vs. VCs on Business Pitches

June 20, 2011

Over the weekend I caught Business Insider’s Five VCs Explain What They REALLY Think About Your Pitches. It’s a great post, gathering points together from discussions with several high-end VCs. If you’re looking at venture capital, read it. Part of what they said reminded me that angel investors and VCs have a lot in common. [...]

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10 Reasons You'll Actually Miss Newspapers

July 15, 2009

I wish I’d thought of this first. But I didn’t. So instead, here’s 10 Reasons You’ll Actually Miss Newspapers, by Dan Frommer on businessinsider.com (he’s got it illustrated one picture per item, too, worth clicking on the original just for the pictures): Starting a fire Wrapping presents Espionage (that one really needs the picture, a [...]

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