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MoneyBall got some Oscar nods recently; “Hollywood newcomer Brad Pitt may have finally arrived” quipped George Clooney from his Golden Globe podium. Meanwhile, another great baseball story 50 years in the making is now becoming an overnight sensation:  Choate legend Tom Yankus is due for some honors we can only mention once Choate’s PR cranks up, or the [...]

This excerpt is serialized from a whitepaper titled Angel Investing for Single Family Offices by The Family Office Association and Vaux les Ventures. Those looking for tales of my latest death defying adventure may find it extremely boring. Entrepreneurs looking for angel, or vice versa, may find it shockingly illuminating. I’m cool either way. For [...]

This excerpt is serialized from a whitepaper titled  Angel Investing for Single Family Offices by The Family Office Association and Vaux les Ventures.  For a complete copy, visit the FOA website. Word to today’s angel: you won’t likely create it in house, so Network or Die. The dot.com mantra still applies today, and even more [...]

I once beat Janet Lee, the famous black widow, at nine ball in a giant exhibition. * ** While you’ll have to read to the bottom for the whole truth, let me at least  explain partially: it was excellent training for starting and growing  companies. Really. Here is what I used over the next 20 years [...]

Here’s one way to wrap up 2011: World 2011in<140: ArabSpring Tsunami Wedding(Royal,Kim) Osama DSK Jobs(Steve,austerity) Riots Floods OWS PepperSpray Mobile! Me 2011in<140: Wedding (mine) New Jobs (Mojiva-106) Angel ($500k) Venture ($25M) Contractions (hers) Startup (WellAware) Move (Greenwich) Baby (First) Sleep (Last) Twitter was one thing I learned in 2011. Like most things in my life, I had never [...]

  The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) came out with a shocker this week; urging a Cellphone Ban for Drivers. I support the NTSB’s cellphone ban for the following reason: anyone still using that word probably still calls a “car” a “horseless carriage”. Beside the story in the New York times, there was a stock [...]

It’s been said 2012 will be the year of Social Media in Business; for the meta travel site KAYAK, it couldn’t come soon enough. While some businesses are evolving or even transforming how they buy and sell products, many are fast becoming social businesses. In a Fast Company article by Drew Neisser, “Move Over Social Media; [...]

I work hard to get lucky.  I think most successful entrepreneurs do. But when luck comes, you rarely get to see what ELSE happened to make you lucky. It’s usually just some little thing clear on the other side of the world that started some sequence of events that ended with you on a good day. [...]