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April 2010 Blog Posts (7)

Buried in Financial Reform is a Bad News Bit for Angel Investors and Early Stage Ventures: Take Action?

From Venture Beat:

"There are three changes that should have a particular effect on angel investors, a catch-all category which includes everyone from friends

and family members who invest in a startup, to unaffiliated wealthy

individuals, to side investments made by venture capitalists acting on

their own.

First, Dodd’s bill would require startups raising funding to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and then wait 120 days for the SEC to…

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Added by Christine Mason McCaull on April 20, 2010 at 9:21am — No Comments

Intuition in Business: Are You Your Own Best Advisor?

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Added by Margie Tosch on April 14, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Nostalgia Addendum

I read this yesterday over a morning java:

The word "nostalgia" was invented on June 22, 1688 by Johannes Hofer, an Alsatian medical student, by combining the word νόστος, nostos ("return home") with the word ἄλγος, algos ("pain") in his medical thesis, Disertatio medica de nostalgia… Continue

Added by Anea Kamahele on April 14, 2010 at 12:16am — No Comments

An Analog Nostalgia

I recently celebrated one of those milestone birthdays, the ones about which we like to say "Such-and-such an age is the new such-and-such an age!" Phooey. All I can say is that I don't know how the old days used to be and I can only compare my own experience to, well, my own experience. My rotator cuff has been bugging me something crazy for weeks and my fingers are numb. My hair is shedding off my head like some sort of long-haired… Continue

Added by Anea Kamahele on April 8, 2010 at 11:14pm — No Comments

Shared Workspace Update - April 7, 2010

Just a quick update on where we are with the WiredSonoma Shared Workspace. Here they are in no particular order:

It looks like the deal points of the lease are negotiated and ready for signature.…

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Added by Chip Roberson on April 7, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Rest For the Weary?

Tonight my first foray into a local social networking site. A little stymied. I sit here tapping on the keyboard then hitting delete. Should I have a purpose? If so, for whom? Me? I suppose for now that will do.

I've realized since becoming a business owner that the creativity I was accustomed to freely expressing has dried up into something less than a trickle. More like sludge. Or perhaps even the caked and cracking mud at the…

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Added by Anea Kamahele on April 5, 2010 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Shared Workspace - Naming Opportunities

Hello Wired Sonomans,

I'm really excited about how the Shared Workspace is shaping up and we have some first-rate architects, facility, color and lighting planners helping us out. As you all know building out the new space is not going to be cheap as we are trying to create a quality environment that will not only serve everyone's needs but be a place where people will want to spend time.

One of the ideas that I'm putting out for consideration is…

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Added by Chip Roberson on April 2, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments