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Today, Henry Blodget suggested that now that the MSFT/YHOO talks are over, AOL has been put into play in a major way.
Henry suggests AOL will be bought by MSFT or YHOO, and prefers YHOO, but favors MSFT as the eventual buyer. Meanwhile, he suggests that “If Microsoft or Yahoo doesn’t buy AOL, the company should [...]

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This is Part 1 of a series of posts explaining my dive back into the consulting space. If you’re interested in hearing how I could collaborate with your business, stay tuned for future posts, or contact me at nate (@) innonate.com

In the last few weeks, I’ve been approached and encouraged by a number of people [...]

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SCROLL DOWN FOR THE WINNER!!!
 I’m at the DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge finals. Will be live blogging here.
The 4 finalists are:

Electro-Epi
Widetronix
JetEye
Yan Engines

Going into Electro-Epi’s presentation now…
Electro-Epi
Adam Stanley, CEO, is presenting. His company is a team from Brown University. They make solar panels more efficient.
This is a $3.32 billion market.
EpiFoil is the material they developed. They’ve [...]

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It’s absolutely unfair but true: Gary Vaynerchuk got yanked from my “5 things from the future” post when I thought about “Just in Time Philanthropy” and Donors Choose. Sorry dude - “Just in Time Philanthropy” needs more exposure!
But have no fear! Last night, Gary appeared on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and reminded all [...]

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Do you feel like pondering what the future of hardware looks like? (I think most readers of this blog spend a lot more time gushing over software.)
Check out Darren Herman’s post pronouncing that “Screen Devices Should be Subsidized.”
His thesis:
As hardware companies become more like content companies, or content companies begin to pump out more hardware, [...]

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The Facebook team announced last night that you’ll be able to demote your Facebook apps to a lower status on your provide, essentially making it easier to hide them away.
The “clean-up tool” is going to “clean up” a lot of soon-to-be pissed off developers.
This just falls right in line with the Facebook business model warnings [...]

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Awesome new blog of the day…
Keeping Nickels.
It’s a blog about small business finance and it’s written by Nichelle, a small business accountant/bookkeeper for hire.
Now, if you’re wondering why that name sounds so familiar, it’s because Nichelle is famous for her cupcake blog and her cupcake meetup.
Anyway, ordinarily startups have to hire boring professional service providers, [...]

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I’m a sucker for good headlines, so when I read “Meg Whitman Should Go” in the subject of my email inbox this morning (yes, I receive news in more than just my RSS reader — read about it here), I could do no less than make the Alley Insider article the first thing I read [...]

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There are some things in life and business you can only learn by doing… or at least planning for.
So, it’s not a surprise that the latest web “revelation” I’ve had, which are oft-inspired by the process of building BricaBox, has come as Kyle and I have started to architect our premium features and billing system; [...]

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I rarely use this blog to talk about my work in the online advertising world. Here’s a short post which goes into a bit of detail regarding what I’m learning about the industry, what makes eMediaRep and NPB such great organizations, and how I think Blip.tv is “getting it”
UPDATE: It appears that Blip pulled their [...]

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