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San Jose State prof hopes to team up with Pink Slip 2.0(0)

Anu Basu, a professor of entrepreneurship at San Jose State University, spotted our Pink Slip 2.0 project and wondered whether it might dove-tail with her own academic interest - the relationship between job loss and entrepreneurship. “In other words,” she told me, “under what circumstances does job loss push someone into entrepreneurship?” Read the rest of this entry »

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Disintermediating the VCs? Fat chance.(5)

younoodleIn this age of disintermediation, when middle men of all kinds are rendered increasingly irrelevant by online technology, it seems only fair that the same force takes aim at the people who helped finance the Internet’s spread: venture capitalists.

YouNoodle, the San Francisco startup that last year launched an online crystal ball of sorts that uses Read the rest of this entry »

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