Well, I got a very pleasant surprise last night in my email. Tony Perkins notified me that I had made the Top 100 VC list in their inaugural year of the list. I don't usually like to self-promote but this...

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"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." -- Nora Roberts I have an old, wooden...
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Resilience

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Don Wood sent this over today. It says a lot about how we all go about our daily lives and what we miss or overlook, especially as we have our heads down in the New Normal. ..something to think about......
Topics: Inspiration

{"title":"Appreciating Your Immediate World","post_url":"http:\/\/www.vcconfidential.com\/2009\/09\/appreciating-your-immediate-world.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.vcconfidential.com\/index.rdf","author":"mbmccall","date":"2009-09-15 20:42:26","summary":"Don Wood sent this over today. It says a lot about how we all go about our daily lives and what we miss or overlook, especially as we have our heads down in the New Normal. ..something to think about......"}

My long-time Kellogg/BCG friend, Al Warms, has gone public with his latest effort, Appolicious. Al sold his previous company, Buzztracker, to Yahoo and went on to successfully run & grow Yahoo News. Appolicious is a community for application discovery....

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I often hear entrepreneurs talking about how they need to leave Chicago or Austin or Denver to be in the Valley in order to succeed. This has puzzled me since results would indicate otherwise. Yes, a lot of the high...
Topics: Entrepreneurship

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