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A few weeks ago, I wrote about a challenge Darren Herman posted on his blog. The title of my post, and the challenge itself, was “What would you do with 750,000 users?”
Fast-forward a week, and Kevin Marshall sees my article in his RSS reader; but, because of some sort of error in Google Reader, all [...]

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You hear it every day by VCs, entrepreneurs, and strategists…
“It’s not about the idea… it’s about the execution of it.”
Entrepreneurs who still need to learn this lesson should look no farther than this post from Paul Graham called “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund.”
In this post, Paul lists 30 ideas (more like concepts) which need [...]

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My friend Darren Herman has issued a very interesting challenge on his website.
The challenge to entrepreneurs is to solve this problem:
I’d like to pose a challenge to all entrepreneurs or established companies who are looking to increase their distribution (and business) in the digital media world.  I’m friendly advising someone/company that has legal access to [...]

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A few days ago, Path 101 announced the alpha of their site. Congrats, fellas!
One of the first features out of the bag is their free personality test section.
Now, this is no ordinary personality test… this is a career-oriented personality test. So, as a newly minted “Entrepreneur in Residence” I was curious to see what what [...]

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“Was she being supremely Machiavellian? Or had she simply lost her mind?”
– John Hielemann, on Hillary Clinton’s final weeks campaigning

Today, I’m announcing my plans to close BricaBox, LLC.
This decision, which has taken place over the last few weeks, was as complicated as are my feelings about it. Nonetheless, I can tell you most of this [...]

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Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Pop17 by Sarah Austin. She stopped by the BricaBox’s new digs (same building, new floor).
Anyway, Sarah’s posted the video and I’ve included it embedded below:

Thanks Sarah (and camera genius Mike). I had fun.

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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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I’ve recently taken notes on the top 5 things in my life which I believe are indicators of what the future looks like:

Twinkle
AppleTV
Silicon Alley Insider
Meetup / The Point / CarrotMob
DonorsChoose & Kiva

Twinkle
No need to put the iPhone or Twitter on my list, because the Twinkle application (jailbroken phones only, for now) combines both of these [...]

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Photo Credit: Firesign
I’m going to Cincinnati this weekend to visit my family and, most importantly, see my brother in a play.
While I’m there (Friday - Monday), I’d love to connect with any Cincinnati-based tech people, so shoot me a note if you know of anyone rocking out the Cincinnati tech scene!

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How do you define “entrepreneurial hunger”?
To me, it’s not “drive to succeed” or “being opportunity obsessed” as some of these Google results suggest.
To me, entrepreneurial hunger is real hunger.
It’s working so hard you forget to eat. It’s looking at the clock at 1, thinking about lunch, and then picking your head up at 4 and [...]

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