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The ever inventive Fred Wilson of AVC blog yesterday posted on how to capture Kindle highlights from their web storage...and then share them. Use this link in any Kindle device and login...

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Recently I began reading an excellent blog, UX Magazine, that talks about design, web design and user interface. The posts are comparable in...

Recently I wrote a very popular post on Brazil--ABDI Presentation on the Future of Brazil--that discussed a government presentation on the competitiveness of Brazil. A friend...

I was writing a post on Mexico, which will come out next week. This writing prompted me to recall a situation during the Clinton Administration where Mexico was about to default its debt and the...

Some of the most interesting commentary on the economic crisis of 2008 came from writers who referenced Karl Marx and his concerns about international banking. Now the Chinese government has...

I have been following the story of the efforts to recall the Mayor of Miami-Dade for some time. Yesterday the Miami-Herald announced that in a resounding vote, with 90 percent...

I have been a frequent critic of LinkedIn, largely because I think they have built a fantastic franchise but have not developed it to the full potential. In this post last year I outlined a...

I have been thinking about what I want a tablet to do. From talking with a lot of power users I know that a tablet will never be my work machine for book writing, building Excel models...

At the Do Good Do Well conference in Barcelona last week one of the presenters was Jil Van Eyle. He was noteworthy for his thoughtful and practical advice on fundraising for social...

The Gong Show has an interesting article on a different style of presenting an investment to an investor. After the introductions and small talk, start the presentation by highlighting the...

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When you think about the number of people who have affected positive social change in the lives of millions or billions of people with little or no financial...

The blogging muse went on vacation and did not tell me. So today's post is a summary of some very interesting articles from this morning's reading.

Fred Wilson, legendary NYC VC, started a huge...

In 1997 I lived in Jakarta, Indonesia and experienced first hand the violence and protests that led to the change from an authoritarian regime to a fledling democracy. There the protests began...

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