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Reid Hoffman, founder of Linkedin, gives us a guided tour of the Linkedin HQ in Palo Alto. It’s an excellent glimpse at pure Silicon Valley culture, well-worth spending  its 5 minutes duration.
Courtesy of Loic Lemeur, at whose post you can also download the video and the sound.
Update: See what the blogosphere says about Reid Hoffman.
 

Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist and the driving force behind the brilliant gapingvoid business cards.

If nothing else, a cartoonist’s mission is to cram pearls of wisdom, social critics or just downright funny stories into a single panel (or 2–4 panels depending on the medium).
However, some of these pearls of wisdom come not in the form of drawings […]

An initiative for raising awareness of the importance of the entrepreneurial spirit is being launched in France under the very catchy name of “100.000 Entrepreneurs”. 

This initiative brings entreprepreneurs to schools, high schools and universities, where they give their testimony and inspire the younger generations. More info here.

From the Wikipedia

According to an article published in the MIT Technology Review, 3 MIT scientists are working on a way to charge batteries without wires, using magnetic induction. This is something Nikola Tesla first theorized more than 100  years ago.
Pretty neat, but the real deal-killer may be in its applications, as one commenter points out:
I recall 2 earlier startups, Mobilewise and Splashpower, that […]

More from A View From The Bridge
Evergreen Innovation Partners’s own way of quick sizing a market:

Size the Opportunity - Cheat Sheet

Matt McCall, an investor in EIP and good friend (and fellow Kellogg MBA alum!), recently wrote a great blog about how VC’s look at businesses to invest in. See Scalability — P*Q
We run into exactly the […]

From A View From The Bridge
No matter how many perspectives you read about how a pitch should be done, it never seems to be enough. Here’s Evergreen Innovation Partners‘ perspective:
The Art of the Pitch

I ran across a very solid piece from the upcoming Canadian TV show "Dragon’s Den" today and it’s worth sharing. If you’re a successful […]

From SearchCRM.com:

[Michael Maoz, Research VP at Gardner Inc.,] cited the widely publicized example of an AOL customer who recorded every step of their painful process of trying to cancel their subscription from the Internet service provider. The experience was placed online, shared via Digg and eventually found its way onto MSNBC and The Wall Street […]