Virgance Equinox Event

Posted on April 7, 2009 Under Eco

Today's Equinox Event at San Francisco's 111 Minna will be the most recent SF Beta event and program from Virgance, the for-profit activism campaign management company whose primary tool for encouraging change is online networking. They're the brains behind 1…

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Kluster's Knewsroom

Posted on May 14, 2008 Under Life

Ben Kaufman wants you to work for him. And you. And you. And all those people in that building next to you. We told you about his ever morphing business of crowdsourced product development called Kluster. Now it has landed…

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Kluster's 72 Hour TED Challenge

Posted on February 27, 2008 Under Life

Kluster, founded by friend and young punk Ben Kaufman is in full force here at TED. The former iPod accessory entrepreneur recently (ie: last week) launched his new platform to allow groups of people (just like you and me) to…

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Help Stephen!

Posted on November 1, 2007 Under Design

Writing cover letters to potential employers are a serious PITA for most people. I personally deal with them well, because I like that they give me an opportunity to show I'm sort of an interesting person employers might like to…

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SpearTalks: Crowdfunder

Posted on October 26, 2007 Under Life

Among my contemporaries, there seems to reside a belief that it is hard to make a good thing happen; good ideas exist by the bucketful, but the initiative to turn those ideas into something graspable exists in far smaller quantities.…

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SpearTalks: Amit Gupta

Posted on October 19, 2007 Under Life

Amit Gupta is an entrepreneur. If you read Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, or any other combination of America's best publications, your eyes have probably skimmed the same pages that some of Amit's more popular projects have graced.…

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Ben Casnocha: My Startup Life

Posted on May 29, 2007 Under Books

My friend Ben Casnocha is off and running with his first of what I expect will be many books. The book is called My Startup Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley, and while…

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Guy Kawasaki's New Baby: Truemors

Posted on May 22, 2007 Under Life

Uber-famous entrepreneur and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki recently launched a new project, Truemors.com. His latest venture aims to open access to information and capitalize on user-generated content - namely rumors, news, and other tidbits. Anything seems to be fair game,…

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