Recommended Links (Ed. 0044 / Investing & Entrepreneurship)

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 crowd funding is a disaster waiting to happen, whether we are in a tech bubble, whether PowerPoint ruined General Motors, and how to get people to read your emails. Enjoy.

Angel Investing

• SEC and equity crowdfunding: It’s a disaster waiting to happen
• Are we in a tech bubble? VCs say yes and no
• Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley’s Innovation Factory 
• How Funding Works – Splitting The Equity With Investors
• Despite Big Ambitions, New York’s Tech Scene Is Still Starting Up
• The Most Dangerous Word in Tech

Entrepreneurship

• Survey: Entrepreneurs Are Happiest People On Planet 
• What Makes A Successful Entrepreneur Might Surprise You 
• Why the World Needs Entrepreneurs 
• Brookings Study: U.S. Entrepreneurship on the Wane
• The Mysterious Death of Entrepreneurship in America
• Technology-Focused Producer Tcho Is Changing How Chocolate Is Made
• Salaries Startup Founders Pay Themselves
• Women in Entrepreneurship Emerging Globally from Gaza to Kiev
• Carl Schramm: Teaching Entrepreneurship Gets an Incomplete 
• With barriers gone for energy data, young entrepreneurs are jumping in
• 4 IT Mistakes All Startups Should Avoid
• The Most Dangerous Word in Tech
• Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Business

• The Future of Work, Plus or Minus E-mail
• Why That Phone Charger Took Two Years to Arrive
• Business School, Disrupted
• Did PowerPoint Ruin GM? – Corporate Intelligence
• How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook 
• How this startup knows who’s in your meeting, what they’re saying and whether it matters 

Communication

• 7 Proven Ways To Write Emails That Get Replies
• The Future of Work, Plus or Minus E-mail
• Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong
• Did PowerPoint Ruin GM? – Corporate Intelligence
• What I Learned Watching 150 Hours of TED Talks
• How this startup knows who’s in your meeting, what they’re saying and whether it matters

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