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Silicon Ivy and Main Street: Both Need a Thriving Ecosystem
Last week, my friend Ami Kassar posted a Facebook note coining a phenonomon he called the “Silicon Ivy Bubble.” He wrote: In the Silicon Ivy bubble, there is a perception about entrepreneu… more →
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Silicon Ivy and Main Street: Both Need a Thriving Ecosystem
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chrisshipley wrote 7 months ago: Last week, my friend Ami Kassar posted a Facebook note coining a phenonomon he called the “Sil … more →
Where To Now?
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: Chris and I have been asked one question many times in the past few weeks: how will the financial cr … more →
IVA's Startup Competition Finalists...And the Winner Is...
chrisshipley wrote 1 year ago: The honor of announcing the winners of the Israeli Venture Association’s Startup Competition, a busi … more →
The Week That Was and Will Be
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ll never be an A-list blogger, primarily because … more →
Imitation Is Flattery? Or Just Bad for Entrepreneurs?
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chrisshipley wrote 1 year ago: There are a dozen other, perhaps more important and insightful, posts I’d rather be writing to … more →
Web 2.0's Gateway Drug
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: By gum, I think I’ve got it. My post yesterday on breaking out of our insular tech bubble to e … more →
Share the Love
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: Every industry has a certain level of insularity. It’s human nature to want to be part of the … more →
A Second Opinion
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: I wanted to dash off a quick note and point everyone to an interesting conversation that happened he … more →
Music for the Masses
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: I met with Songkick at SXSW, a Y Combinator startup that aims to bring live music to the masses. The … more →
HiveLive Raises $5.6M from Grotech Capital Group
chrisshipley wrote 1 year ago: I was excited to see yesterday that HiveLive, a Colorado-based enterprise social networking platform … more →
An Eye on Taiwan
carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: Since Chris and I are wrapping up our final report to III in Taiwan, I thought I’d share some … more →
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the 'Burgh
chrisshipley wrote 1 year ago: You don’t have to spend too much time getting to know me before you learn that I grew up in th … more →
The Flaw Lies Within
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: We try to stay above the fray around here – engaging in back-and-forth with other bloggers doe … more →
Accidental Do-Gooder: TakesAllTypes.org
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chrisshipley wrote 1 year ago: What started as a throw away comment over a lunch with investment banker friends has turned Richie H … more →
So Very Tired
carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: Josh Catone’s piece, Visualizing Social Media Fatigue, on ReadWriteWeb added fuel to a fire I’ve bee … more →
What's so Funny about Understanding?
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: There’s a lot of anger in the air these days. It’s the nature of blogging, I suppose … more →
DEMO Preview: Building Africa with Investment, Not Charity
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chrisshipley wrote 1 year ago: A thread — sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious — that weaves through every DEMO conferen … more →
Technology for Grandma
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carlacthompson wrote 1 year ago: Gizmodo’s Adam Frucci made me laugh out loud just now when I read his piece on CES, Ten Reason … more →
Booking Angel a Startup without Reservations
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chrisshipley wrote 1 year ago: I was speaking yesterday to an as-yet stealth startup and doing what I usually do in these settings: … more →
