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Steve Jobs, as seen by Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen, Walter Mossberg, and Steve Wozniak — [VIDEO]

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GroupOn is a lemon. — [LINKS]

I blogged negatively on GroupOn some time ago. This morning, I noticed a bunch of damning reports on the Chicago-based startup. UPDATE: Fortune. + More.

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Bloomberg Game Changers: Marc Andreessen — [VIDEO]

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Marc Andreessen on innovations, entrepreneurs and startups

Marc Andreessen, Founder of Ning, Opsware, Netscape and the Creator of Mosaic, provides his insight to entrepreneurs at Startup School 08.

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Journalism Failures — Big Time

— – In February 2001, Fortune magazine named ENRON the “most innovative company”. – In October 2007, Robin Hanson, on the Overcoming Bias blog, re-published the falsehood that James Surowiecki (and 3 other book authors in their respective book) made … Continue reading

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Eric Zitzewitz now out of Silicon Valley and San Francisco’s rich and remarkable local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams —ALAS.

Hardware companies have clustered around industry leaders in Silicon Valley, while Internet advertising and design has taken root in San Francisco. [...] The [Silicon] Valley residents see themselves as true entrepreneurs, entirely focused and dedicated. Marc Andreessen, 36, the co-founder … Continue reading

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YAHOO! RESEARCH SCIENTIST DAVID PENNOCK IMPLORES AND SUPPLICATES GMU PROFESSOR ROBIN HANSON TO CONTINUE BLOGGING.

David Pennock: Academic papers largely influence … other academics. In a cycle that often seems set up to do little else than impress one another within a insular niche. Ok, I’m exaggerating the skeptic’s side of the coin, but it … Continue reading

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Will some brand-new prediction exchanges be based on the FaceBook platform in the near future?

Read Marc Andreessen’s take on the FaceBook platform, and decide by yourself. As for me, I’d say “yes”.

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