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I remember a financial advisor (a woman) once said that when the male spouse dies its at least an 80% chance the female spouse didn't know anything about their finances. I asked he…

"A weaker currency 'makes them more competitive and reduces the burden of debt," - makes them more competitive? It makes the pricing lower but not more competitive. China and any o…

First some facts: The upper 5% of the population pays 75% of all federal revenue, even though they only account for about 25% of the GDP Almost 60% pay no income tax The real US ta…

Hi Francesco, How do I contact you?

That's a good way, IMO. I think a lot of non-tech co-founders should look more at outsourcing the development. When even Jrs at good computer schools already have jobs with the big…

I totally agree. As a non-tech co-founder it is up to me to sell value to the prospective tech co-founder, investor and eventually to the customer. If I can't do that then why work…

Yeah I hear you but the steps you take in building a small business, while perhaps less risky, are the same. Yet you even get cache in trying a big business. I've done 5 startups (…

Going to Portland Startup Weekend Apr 1-3: http://portland.startupweekend.org/ Well document how it goes. Probably in video :>

How does this play with VC's coming into the Super Angel space?

I still can't understand how to use the iPad. It doesn't do what my Mac Book can and I can do what it does on my iPhone. For eBooks I have my Kindle which is much better to read on…

Why should anyone have to imagine? Why should they have to pay for a whole album when only one song is worth paying for? That's the problem with Bon Jovi, most albums weren't worth…

The only problem here is that entrepreneurs are humans and as such they tend to swing for the fences. I know I do. Its the come big or go home mentality. Its the American way. What…

Little Azz team, Kick Azz idea, Big Azz market...brilliant

Absolutely there is a lot of meat there. And hope for all of us!

I agree to me the main gist of that post was: "So sell, by all means. But don’t over sell. Don’t promise unrealistic things. Don’t over promise.s this quote:" Sales of everything i…

The only problem with your points are they have lead other countries to financial ruin. The one thing keeping this country from being Greece or Ireland or even worse Egypt (all I e…

Cool site. I uploaded my vc pitch and it showed me my emphasis. Great tool!

Keep on going California and soon there will not be anyone left. This goes on all the time. Why do you think Amazon and Microsoft moved their server farms to Idaho? Eventually they…

very good site explaining what happened: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/explainer-...

Thanks for the post

No its not. Right now our corporate tax rate is 2nd only to Japan. What is happening is corporate flight from the US. I get emails every day proclaiming the low tax rates of Costa …

When I first read about Zediva and how they planned to work it, I laughed. Are they going to have tons of people going around changing dvd machines. I pictured a huge warehouse wit…

Look Content is still king, Netflix needs to have content no one else has. This is the only way. I can see them offering exclusive agreements to content providers that would be mor…

What a place to be in. I would suggest you look outside of the Western World namely Central and South America. I'm a commercial broker and that's where I'm putting my money.