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Nature Journaling With John Muir Laws
How Not to Run a Double Dipsea
Explaining Facebook to the teenager
How to fix Nature and avoid human misery: UN report
The new plan to remove a trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: Bury it
What HBO's "Chernobyl" Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong
Facebook's GlobalCoin is coming in 10 Days
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From the Ground Up (and your June monthly Planet Waves horoscope by Eric Francis)
The Danger in Fake Positivity and Spiritual Bypassing
A Kingdom from Dust
All-American Despair
What People Actually Say Before They Die
Dylan's Desk: The time to start a company is now
11/23/2011 entrepreneurs, startupsPublished Work, VentureBeat
In my latest column for VentureBeat, I wrote about my experiences as an entrepreneur during the dot-com boom, and why it's so important not to delay if you think you've got a startup in you. The only way to learn how to start a company is by going out and actually doing it.… Read the rest
Own takes aim at point-of-sale with ambitious hardware, software and cloud product
9/29/2011 funding, point of sale, retail, startupsPublished Work, VentureBeat
A small Detroit-based company has plans to reinvent the way restaurants, cafes and stores take money from customers.
Own is aiming to make a point-of-sale (POS) system that doesn't just reinvent the cash register, it turns it into a node on a web-connected information system.… Read the rest
Former DoubleClick team raises $6M for comparison-shopping engine
7/20/2011 7/22/2011 e-commerce, shopping, startupsPublished Work, VentureBeat
DoubleClick cofounder Kevin O'Connor has a new startup, FindTheBest, aimed at helping you compare everything from air purifiers to venture capitalists.
Now, with a $6 million funding round from Kleiner Perkins that closed Tuesday, FindTheBest should be in a good position to build out its "data driven content platform," which combines computer-driven semantic analysis with human-powered tagging to build data sets quickly and efficiently.… Read the rest