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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. There has to be a better way.

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How Smart CEOs Use Social Tools to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Advances in digital technology and their use in organizations carry huge promise to empower people at all levels. Tools like Oblong Industries’ Mezzanine can bring multiple streams of data onto HD displays where they can be easily organized, manipulated, and archived into files that can be accessed for later use.

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Day 3 Davos Snapshot

Harvard Business Review

I'm sitting here in the Partners Lounge on the Mezzanine Level of the Congress Center. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. (See Michael's earlier notes from Davos here , here , and here.