Silicon Valley is a white hot wealth creation star. But nearby East Palo Alto, a relatively poor city, lies outside the orbit of that sun.
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I don't believe the children are our future. I believe these children, today's children, will make their own future. One completely different than the one we have envisioned for them… a better future. We may have been able to provide them with the technological advances they will need, but it is they who will actually solve the world’s problems.
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2012 was quite a year for the crowdfunding industry. In April, President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, which will open up equity-based crowdfunding for unaccredited investors. In May, the Pebble E-Paper Watch set a crowdfunding record and gained national media headlines, raising over $10 million on donation-based crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Research firm Massolution estimates the crowdfunding industry (equity + donation + lending +reward crowdfunding) will grow from $1.5 billion in 2011[...]
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Do you spend your life in meetings? If you do, chances are that many or even most of them are boring, off-point, and too long. In other words, they get in the way of real work.
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Lee Hower is a Boston venture capitalist who has worked with some of Silicon Valley's biggest names. And the lessons he's learned from the brains behind PayPal and LinkedIn (LNKD) are worth heeding -- if nothing else, they demonstrate the power of the Silicon Valley Start-up Common (SVSC).
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A series of Forbes Insights profiles of Thought Leaders changing the business landscape: Logan LaHive, Founder and CEO, Belly
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I had my annual chat with Michael Dell on his Dell world conference next week and this will be one for the record books. Not only do they have Bill Clinton as the keynote (otherwise known as the guy we wish had won the last election) but they have one of the leading women entrepreneur promoters doing a round table and a big, unexpected, Windows 8 surprise.
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As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Eucalyptus Systems' CEO, Marten Mickos shared his advice regarding what it takes to be a serially successful entrepreneur.
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IT'S RESOLUTION TIME
It's that time of the year when we look in the mirror and promise ourselves to make more money, get fit and be happier. We busy ourselves with making and swapping new year's resolution lists.
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J.J. Colao, Forbes Staff
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