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My Investment in Hungryroot: A Tasty Lesson in Products vs. Services

This is going to be BIG.

Hungryroot is going after that category--the packaged food category, with a product that takes about 7 minutes from package to mouth. I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. All you need is a pan and some olive oil. He was working on Village Vines, which became Savored.

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What I’ve Learned from Fred Wilson

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My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.” The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px. I’m sure of the value. And thank you.

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Do Less. More.

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There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Getting Over Imposter Syndrome When Building Your Public Profile

This is going to be BIG.

A lot of people have furthered their career by “putting themselves out there”—creating blogs, newsletters, participating on Twitter, doing podcasts, etc. They tend to fall into two categories and you're not either one of these: —Celebrities that are willfully ignorant about cultural issues. Do you have mentors?

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Beyond the Cup: Tracking Success Stories from the Entrepreneur’s Cup Series – Srijita Ghosh

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Srijita Ghosh Represented East Central University in 2017 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup 2 nd place in Small Business category and Pitch Competition winner Currently Venture Advisor at i2E Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea.