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Restoring Hope
One of the reasons that I like hanging with entrepreneurs is that they give you hope. In times of trouble, or when you are down, go out and talk to some people starting up a business. They think for...
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Building The Midwestern Ecosystem, One Company at A Time
I don’t know if anyone saw this on Techcrunch. It’s worth a viewing. These videos are Chicago-centric. However, even though I am from here I am not territorial. No one has the market cornered on great...
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Simply Brilliant
On my long 11 hour drive from Grand Marais, MN to Chicago, I perused TechCrunch on my wife’s iPad. I have been off the internet a lot this past week because we really don’t have cell or internet...
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The Brain Drain From Finance
At Startup Management, they posted an article showing stats on where top business school graduates are going to work post graduation. For the first time, grads are migrating into entrepreneurial jobs...
View ArticleWhat’s A Good Bitcoin Company?
One of the difficulties with either starting, or investing in a Bitcoin company is the uncertainty. How do you know what has a chance, and what has no chance? One thing to think about is what Peter...
View ArticleHey Advertisers: Be Sophisticated
Banner ads and click through ads are so done. One of the things I like about Tumblr is the sophistication of the advertising on it. Native ads designed as blogposts. Maybe the Tumblr user is smarter...
View ArticleIs It A Billion Dollar Idea or Not?
One of the tough things when you seed invest is to figure out if the company you are analyzing is a billion dollar idea or not. It’s so hard that Brad Feld has said it’s impossible. I think we focus...
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