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Book excerpt: What makes a great startup idea? Lessons from a veteran entrepreneur

GeekWire

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a new book written by Shirish Nadkarni, a Seattle tech veteran who co-founded Livemocha (acquired by RosettaStone) and TeamOn (acquired by BlackBerry). While the trend toward globalization was accelerating, a number of social networks began emerging and capturing end-user attention.

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Luni Libes’ Fledge accelerator takes flight as socially conscious investing keeps growing

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Libes had been involved with Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Presidio Graduate School ), a program focused on how to use capitalism for social and environmental benefit. ” So in 2012, Libes launched Fledge , a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies. No commercial web yet.

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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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Jeff Hussey, CEO and co-founder of Tempered Networks, and his wife on a trip to Austria. Jeff Hussey , co-founder and CEO of Seattle’s Tempered Networks, is not a believer in long-term work-from-home practices. “We His office at Tempered Networks has views of Puget Sounds. Tempered Networks Photo). Jeff Hussey.

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Pew Report: Increasing Technology Use among Seniors

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While younger generations are known to quickly adapt to technological advances, older adults and seniors have traditionally lagged behind – preferring TV to the Internet or landlines to cell phones. Today, 59% of seniors use the Internet, com. To read more please log in.

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Book Excerpt: Why trust, not data, has become the most important asset in the modern economy

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[ Editor’s Note: Stein Broeder, a marketing executive at Microsoft, explores the components and value of trust in the new book, “ The Business of Trust: How Experiences Build Trust and Drive Business Impact ” Excerpt published with permission.]. “Do That same implied trust is the reason you are reading this book. Do you trust me?”.

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Please GameStop it, Hollywood

The Verge

MGM optioned a movie based on a book that hasn’t even been written yet whose author you’ll probably know from the book that became David Fincher’s The Social Network. The writer and director of Console Wars (a book, also a movie) now have a feature-length documentary that’s “fully financed and already in production”.

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Washington state’s broadband guru on an internet moonshot and being a metaphorical prom king

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While his friend had been a great help building a website he needed, the venture didn’t have any financial backing and Elliott wasn’t versed in internet connectivity. With that, some 20 years ago Elliott helped launch what became a successful business in Colorado called Brainstorm Internet , serving as its president for 13 years.