First Time Entrepreneurs?

[This discussion is getting really interesting … please chime in, folks …] I am trying to figure out the seriousness of something that I see is going on in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. I need your help to understand the phenomenon, and would appreciate if you engage in this thread and offer your perspective. VCs

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Bill Gates Trashing

NY Times has an article: Many Are Already at Work on Fulfilling Gates’s Vision, to which one reader comments: :: bill gates has *never* done anything new in his life – he has *stolen* everything he built his company on. this is once again a gates lie. yes he made a lot of money from

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Turning Around LeapFrog: CEO Jeff Katz (Part 10)

SM: Do you work with foundations? JK: We do. We do not have what I call a structured program with any one foundation. What we have done in the past, in fact annually we do something with one or more foundations. SM: Given the strength is in the reading area, and Bill Gates is spending

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Reed Hastings Joins Microsoft Board

Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, and a renowned serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley is joining Microsoft’s Board. It’s a superb move for Microsoft to bring on board a through-and-through decent and no-bullshit smart guy like Reed on, not to mention the fact that the battle for the consumers’ living room is in full

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Buffet Bends It Like Beckham

Warren Buffet commits his fortune to philanthropy.

More on Bill Gates

From Betsy Corcoran. I happen to be in complete agreement with everything she describes, including that Gates is justifiably moving on to the next stage of his legacy-building journey.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates has announced today that he will no longer be involved with running Microsoft on a day-to-day basis. All through the nineties, and still today, it has been fashionable to bash Gates and his lifetime achievement, Microsoft, the world’s largest software enterprise. Personally, I have a HUGE amount of respect for Gates and what he

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