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The Startup Life | Story Time

14 May 2010

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Anyone who knows me, knows that I love Google Reader. I also love the ease with which I can send articles I think someone might find interesting or pertinent. But my comments on the article are usually short, and a dialogue on the topic is rarely sustained. So, recently, my partners at Capesquared and I [...]

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Emerging Talk – A Recap

29 April 2010

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On Wednesday night, more than one hundred student entrepreneurs gathered at the Syracuse Tech Garden for Emerging Talk – a celebration of the flourishing spirit of entrepreneurship in Central New York.

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Coming Soon: Emerging Talk

16 April 2010

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Check out Capesquared‘s appearance in the news. Also updated the Media page here.

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Starting Up | Beyond the Valley

12 March 2010

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This is the final post in this week’s series Starting Up. I’m headed to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, so be on the lookout for some live updates and other interesting tidbits from SXSW! Everybody knows that California’s Silicon Valley has been a hotbed of technological innovation.  That’s where companies like Google, Apple, Sun, [...]

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Starting Up | Giving Life

11 March 2010

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Talking about entrepreneurs as people is great and understandable, but behind these people and their ventures is the core: an idea.  How do you grow an idea into a venture?  How do you determine if an idea is worthy growing?  Where do ideas come from? I can’t answer the last question, but the GOOD Project has some [...]

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Starting Up | Entreps at 55

10 March 2010

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This is the third post in this week’s series on entrepreneurship, Starting Up. As you may recall from Monday, I posted about the new wave of entrepreneurs, calling them “entreps.”  It’s easy to get the impression that these entreps are young, techno-savvy, and driven by the boundless energy of their youth.  Indeed, many of them [...]

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Starting Up | Buying Entrepreneurs?

9 March 2010

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This is the second post in this week’s series on entrepreneurship, Starting Up. We learned yesterday that entreps can be made, not born.  But can they be bought? That’s what the New York Times asks in this article.  What’s the price? 6 Months, $90,000 and (Maybe) a Great Idea Sound good?  Then maybe being an [...]

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Starting Up | Making Entrepreneurs

8 March 2010

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This is the first post in this week’s series: Starting Up.  This week will explore entrepreneurship in all its various forms with a focus on technology enabled (but not necessarily hi-tech) ventures. As we begin this week’s look at entrepreneurship, I think it would appropriate to start with a great article last week from TechCrunch by Vivek Wadwha [...]

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CollegeMogul

18 February 2010

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First of all, let me welcome any new CollegeMogul readers!  I’m glad you made it here, hopefully what you find will be helpful, or at least interesting. For my regular readers who don’t know what CollegeMogul is, or why people might be visiting here from there, allow me to explain.  My first post at CollegeMogul [...]

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The Startup Life: Vol. 1

11 February 2010

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Some of my regular readers are aware that I’ve got a side project going.  I’d like to write today about some of the (learning) experiences that my business partners and I are having in this crazy entrepreneurship adventure and try to come up with a few lessons learned. Our latest episode comes out of a point of [...]

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