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Start-Up Commandments…Feel Free to Add Some Yourselves 
Howard Lindzon via Howard Lindzon on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Of course we are f#$#ked as my last post detailed, but that does not mean you should not start a business today!
You should do it.
I like to say ‘Be Too Small to Fail’ and Focus on ‘Social Leverage’ but that can be a little vague. It’s late, I am a tad lazy to relink to past posts and go deeper myself, but there is a LOT of recent goodness around the web on start-up c
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Let’s Face It…We are Soooooo F$#^*$^*&ked!
Howard Lindzon via Howard Lindzon on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Every generation thinks they had it the worst.
There is no doubt that my generation (I am 43 which 51 Canadian years at the moment and climbing fast) of White, Can/American, Jews has had it the EASIEST of all time. Buy a moonshot. Until this moment.
The 43 years of goodness now comes back to haunt my generation because we have no clue what real economic brutali
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Everything you always wanted to know about Google…
Ouriel Ohayon via TechCrunch on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
…But were afraid to ask. This is the title of this very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this
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Cost Per New Customer
Kevin via Kevin Hillstrom's MineThat on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Cost Per New Customer is one of the easiest metrics to measure, hence, it is beloved by many marketers.The marketer spends $1,000, yielding 25 new customers. Cost Per New Customer is measured as ($1,000 / 25) = $40.00.The marketer compares CPNC across all marketing activities, seeking to maximize activities with a low CPNC.A metric that yiel
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GradeFund Offers a Different Way to Pay for College: Good Grades
Adam Ostrow via Mashable! on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Paying for college is expensive. GradeFund, a startup founded by a couple of brothers from Harvard and Princeton, has an interesting new approach to covering at least some of the costs: rewarding students monetarily for making good grades.
GradeFund isn’t
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LoJack For Your Laptop
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
It was only a matter of time before a location tracking app found its way into laptop security software. Laptop Cop, which lets you remotely control your computer and delete files if it is stolen, now has a geo-location feature based on WiFi-hotspot tria
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Elite social networking site Total Prestige to raise $1M
Eric Eldon via VentureBeat on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Total Prestige, another social network that aims to cater to elite users, plans to raise $1 million
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Dramatic Return of Risk Aversion May Not Be All Bad
Jack McHugh via The Big Picture on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Good Evening: In the wake of the mid November washout in almost all forms of risk taking, risk appetites in markets around the world spent most of last week trying to recover. Reaching their short term fill on the day after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., market participants abruptly turned away from the risk buffet today and disgorged more than half of last week’s gains in U.S. equit
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An Ounce of Prevention...
Roger Ehrenberg via Information Arbitrage on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Over the holiday I spent some time with a close friend of mine, an amazing pediatrician, exploring the trouble with the U.S. health care system. He is a huge advocate of prevention, investing in wellness, education concerning diet and exercise and non-traditional (e.g., Eastern herbal remedies, resulting in fewer drugs, fewer procedures) protocols. We
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What Pownce Could Have Been
Nate Westheimer via innonate on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Today, Six Apart announced it was buying Pownce.
While this is great news for the founders, this makes me sad, because I saw even bigger things for the messaging service.
Last Spring, when I sat on a grassy knoll
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Outsource To Your Readers
Fred via A VC on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
I read Maureen Dowd's piece yesterday on a website that is covering local news in Pasadena California using stringers in India and I thought the whole idea was really nutty. How is it possible that people living half way across the world could know much about what's going on in my neighborhood?
As Mark Josephson, C
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The End Of Online Anonymity
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
It seems we're approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing technologies have allowed the lines between the "real" world and the "virtual" world to blur. Web 2.0 helped create a world where your identity is revealed in bits and pieces as you share snippets
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The Economy Fell off the Cliff
(unknown author) via i1326 on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
The Economy Fell off the Cliff: Soros is a wise man and the voice of reason in a world full of noise...
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Why I Love Twitter
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I'm following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I sp
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Two Stocks I Like
Sam via Leveraging Ideas on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
At Thanksgiving my friend Dan asked what stocks I liked, if any.
I don’t know stocks or trading well and I have been very negative on the market for a number years. It’s been my belief that the market is no longer suited for small-time individual investors: buy-and-hold is dead, no company can be trusted long-term. The rate of innovation is increasing at such a torrent pace that publ
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Updating ATLAS SHRUGGED for the Financial Crisis
Barry Ritholtz via The Big Picture on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Friday flame bait:
Has ever a more pedantic, tedious tome been penned by any theorist before or since Atlas Shrugged? The odious combination of ideological rigidity and academic purity makes for a compelling manifesto for the naive and weak-minded.
The work has become the
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An example of freeconomics in action - the t-shirt economy
nic via The Equity Kicker on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Clive Thompson over on Wired has an interesting post about folks giving their video content away for free and making money on the t-shirts their fans love to wear. This is similar to music merchandise, but applied to web video.
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