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by wj 15y ago
I have referred to Texas as the Midwest. I tend to think West of the Mississippi and East of the Rockies as the Midwest with a little bit of latitude to the East (Illinois). Not saying I'm correct on that just that I have done it.
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by wj 15y ago
Any insight into the dislike of California and/or Californians? (I've noticed that too while visiting the Midwest.) Your eighth point about stereotyping of the Midwest seems to be what people are doing about California. A slight replacement
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by wj 15y ago
As somebody who has lived on the West Coast my whole life but has married into a very large family in St. Louis I've spent a lot of time there over the past five years. Anecdotal evidence disclaimer. I think there isn't so much a fear of fa
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by wj 15y ago
I think a lot is happening with startups that service businesses. Stripe and Recurly in the payment processing space for example. I'm sure there are thousands of startups trying to disrupt industries that aren't consumer facing so you might
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Mark Cuban Closes Out MIT Conference with Candor(forbes.com)
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Salt: A World History This came out almost a decade ago to critical acclaim. I finally picked it up and am about halfway through. It is a very engaging read about the surprisingly large role that salt played in human history.
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Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader podcasts are great. Each week a new person tells their story of building a company or related topics. Leadership is a common theme. I used to listen to the Manager Tools podcast which had some good
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by wj 15y ago
Link: http://www.indieintern.com
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Show HN: Project management software for movie production
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I've experienced the second theory first hand. A bad partner is much worse than no partner at all.
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I'm wondering if going back to the studio method of producing films in the 20s-40s would be a disruptive method. By that I mean having companies with actors on payroll, writers on payroll, directors on payroll, etc. A group of 5-10 actors,
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I've been working on an alternative for indies for a while now. Hoping to launch in the next couple of months.
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South Park makes one episode a week. From script to airing. They work very long hours during their season. If you're not part of the creative team you're still on call 24 hours a day during production. There was a Comedy Central special on
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by wj 15y ago
Francis Ford Coppola has a site that is a "virtual studio" called Zoetrope ( http://www.zoetrope.com/ ). I haven't visited in a few years but it was a lot of aspiring screenwriters at the time. I'm currently working on a collaboration tool
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by wj 15y ago
If Y Combinator is serious about this they should seriously consider asking John August to speak at Startup School this year. He writes movies for studios, produces his own films, makes iPad apps, and blogs about all of it. He has a better
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by wj 15y ago
Independent film companies are to L.A. what startups are to Silicon Valley. An independent film company is essentially a startup with all of the uncertainty, hard work, late nights, bootstrapping, cash crunches, etc. The odds are stacked ag
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by wj 15y ago
Blog post titled The purpose of drama, and its relationship to Cameron Diaz’s ass. It is by the writer of Charlie's Angels Full Throttle. Great blog for those interested screenwriting. http://johnaugust.com/2008/the-purpose-of-drama-and-it
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Most popular Havard Business Review blog posts of 2011(businessweek.com)
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Startup Funding: 7 Ways To Raise Money For Your Business In 2012 (huffingtonpost.com)
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Millennial Entrepreneurs Bypass Unemployment Line(cnbc.com)
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by wj 15y ago
Agreed. I've always felt an entrepreneurial spirit in the city. Might just be all of the screenwriters in the local coffee houses though. Any drink mixers taking place in Santa Monica?
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by wj 15y ago
Not specifically for women but Elite Trader ( http://www.elitetrader.com/ ) is pretty niche. Food bloggers seem to have a lot of online (and offline) meetups.
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First Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast of the semester(ecorner.stanford.edu)
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The Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader podcasts are great for this. http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html
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All of us that did not get accepted should spend the weekend working on our projects!
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I absolutely love Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders and have listened to every one of them, many two or three times. The two podcasts that have really spoken to me are both on negotiations. "Secret to Successful Negotiations" and "The Art of
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E-commerce in India is getting big funding(forbes.com)
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Join the Forbes List of America's Most Promising Companies(forbes.cbinsights.com)
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Life Before the Dinosaurs(lifebeforethedinosaurs.blogspot.com)
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by wj 16y ago
Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast It is not a book but is free on iTunes. I've lost count on how many times I've recommended it. Almost every speech leaves a "fire in the belly." There were two speeches about negotiations (no

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