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10:00 PM Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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The news today was Marc Andreessen's joining the board of Facebook. From Netscape to Facebook, some interesting ironies along the way. Marc is also a founder of Ning, a social networking application. So why is this important to startups? It's because
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03:08 PM Thursday, June 19, 2008
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I decided to get serious about Technorati today and have "claimed" my Microsoft Startupzone blog. (Of course, I thought I had done this a year ago!) I have an authority of 1 and it's ranked 2 millionth something. We'll see how that changes over time.
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02:34 PM Friday, June 13, 2008
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I came across this article about Microsoft's IP Ventures and Licensing team (by Eric Lai at Computerworld). The article talks about a friendly and "progressive" Microsoft when it comes to licensing its technology to startups. Some of the $7 billion that
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03:44 PM Friday, June 06, 2008
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I wanted to share some new resources for women entrepreneurs and small business owners. The focus in not on tech or software startups, but on small businesses of any type. Explore the Office Live Small Business Women’s Resource Center where you can find
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03:24 PM Thursday, February 21, 2008
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Two days ago, Bill Gates spoke at Stanford – about the promise of innovation from today’s students. He also announced a program which is really cool: DreamSpark , free software for college students and later high school students. You might argue that
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02:15 PM Friday, February 01, 2008
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I came upon an interesting article about what motivates entrepreneurs. The Harvard Business School research note claims that entrepreneurs are often motivated by both the desire to become rich and the desire to be “king” – to have control of the business.
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11:30 PM Saturday, September 22, 2007
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Last weekend, the San Jose Mercury News ran an article on the CEO of VMware – Diane Greene. I have not met Diane, but she clearly brings some interesting management skills to the job – and I always like to celebrate the accomplishments of successful and
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08:17 AM Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Guy came to talk to our team of evangelists this morning. He and Dan'l Lewin worked at Apple together on the Mac team in the 1980s; I was heading evangelism on the Apple IIc side during that time. Lots of people on our team know Guy - he and Don Dodge
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07:52 PM Monday, September 17, 2007
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At the TechCrunch40 Conference today, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital moderated a panel of three founders who came from "humble beginnings": Marc Andreesen, David Filo and Chad Hurley. Here are their stories of how they founded or co-founded their companies,
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11:05 AM Saturday, August 18, 2007
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I read two articles last weekend that say what we all know: it has become cheaper to start a Web 2.0 company by using “off-the-shelf” technology, outsourcing IT and marketing, off-shoring development, and keeping your costs low until you know if your
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02:19 AM Friday, July 20, 2007
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MIT Panel on The Path to Entrepreneurship, Post 2 of 3 (July 10, 2007) Every woman CEO/founder on the panel exemplified the values in Stewart Alsop's list as she talked about her story - though there were many differences among them and lots of advice
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08:00 PM Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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The Path to Entrepreneurship, MIT Alumnae Club (part I of III) July 10, 2007 – Palo Alto CA Last Tuesday I attended a MIT alumnae event in Palo Alto on “ The Path to Entrepreneurship ” – featuring Joyce Chung, Cardinal Venture Capital, moderator; 4 women
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