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How the Entrepreneurial Mindset is Empowering Lives Through Organ Donation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Winnie Hart , former Global Board Director and EO Houston member, and her team at Twin Engine worked passionately to develop and launch the Living Liver Foundation brand. I leveraged “Gestalt” protocol (Forum mindset) to reach out to my network and ask others to share their experience with the legislative process,” Dave said. “I

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How One Entrepreneur Utilizes Visualization To Promote Living Organ Donation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The stadiums will play the LLF’s 60-second public service announcement on living organ donation, and honorees’ names will also scroll on the video board between innings. Contributed to EO by Dave Galbenski, an EO Detroit member who served as EO Global Chair in 2008-2009. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley steps back from the company

TechCrunch

He’ll remain on the Board of Directors as co-chair with Factual founder Gil Elbaz. In 2009, Foursquare was better known for its location-based social network. He’s also been running the Foursquare Labs R&D group since then. Going forward, Crowley won’t be working full-time at the company. Foursquare merges with Factual.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? I know this because you’re not a young teenager. Will we get there?

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)).

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. … 2009: Know what you stand for and surround yourself with people who are aligned with that mission. We grew our customer count 30% in 2009. I certainly did.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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