Latest selection of the best stuff I’ve seen lately across the ScratchPaper focus areas of Angel Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business & Communication, including items on whether John Doerr can save Kleiner Perkins, Girls who Code, whether Silicon Valley is in a bubble, and whether entrepreneurship is contagious. Enjoy.
Angel Investing
- What Industries VCs are Hot For (entrepreneur)
- Don’t Crush Start-Ups Ability to Raise Money (heritagefoundation)
- Some startups are making big promises to early investors: a guaranteed return when the company IPOs (WSJ)
- The Value of a Board at the Seed Stage (allthingsd)
- John Doerr’s last stand: Can a dramatic shakeup save Kleiner Perkins? (pando)
- New cybersecurity boom arrives in Silicon Valley (LAtimes)
- In Silicon Valley, Partying Like It’s 1999 Again (nytimes)
- Why I Don’t Ask “Is This a Billion Dollar Business” Before I Invest (hunterwalk)
- For Start-Up Leaders, to Sell or Hold Is a Tough Call (bits.blogs.nytimes)
- An Interview With Liz Eswein, Instagram User-Turned-Entrepreneur (NYTimes)
- Q&A with Marc Andreessen: Bubble believers (online.wsj)
- Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology (al3x)
- Why are Internet startups raising so much, so fast? (finance.fortune.cnn)
Entrepreneurship
- Survey: Entrepreneurs Are The Happiest People on Planet (forbes)
- The Youngest Technorati (nytimes)
- Chris Dixon on Good Ideas that Looked Like Bad Ideas (fredwilson)
- Does Entrepreneurship Need to Be In Your Genes (forbes)
- The Monuments of Tech (start-up campuses) (nytimes)
- Those who can’t, teach (economist)
- Entrepreneurship can start in College: Here is How (huffingtonpost)
- Study: The High-Tech Start-Up Slow Down Started Before the Recession (entrepreneur)
- The Biggest Problem for Entrepreneurs – There Are So Many of You (blogs.wsj)
- Start Up Founder Salaries – Experience Gets the Bucks (thenextweb)
- Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur (news)
- Girls Who Code (Fred Wilson/AVC)
- When Should a Startup Think About Global Markets? (Blue Dun)
- Entrepreneurship begins at home – and grows from there (Financialpost)
- In defense of the fat startup (gigaom)
- It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level (steveblank)
- Is entrepreneurship contagious? (cnbc)
- The Entrepreneurship Answer to Youth Unemployment (forbes)
- An Entrepreneur Who Manufactures Entrepreneurs (nytimes)
- Start-Ups Are Mining Hyperlocal Information for Global Insights (nytimes)
- Can technology improve business innovation? (zdnet)
- Early Stage Startups Vulnerable to IP Theft (blogs.wsj)
Business
- As Software Eats The World, Non-Tech Corporations Are Eating Startups (TechCrunch)
- TripAdvisor CEO Kaufer: Reinvent the Company in Good Times (Xconomy)
- Hamburger Heaven: Business Lessons from a Child’s Bookshelf (Xconomy)
- Beyond 3-D Printers’ Magic, Possible Legal Wrangling (nytimes)
Communication
- Eight email failures (and questions for those that want to do better) (Seth Godin)
- 29 Dumb Things Finance People Say (businessinsider)
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