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http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/05/smallbusiness/panda-express-chinese-food.fortune/index.html Andrew and Peggy Cherng at a Panda Express in Rosemead, Calif.

How Panda Express brings Chinese food to the mall - Feb. 5, 2013

All markets are predictably irrational. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57565708-276/wall-street-is-from-mars-silicon-valley-is-from-venus/

Wall Street is from Mars, Silicon Valley is from Venus | The Social Analyst

Meet the World’s Cheapest Venture Capitalist | Wired Business

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/worlds-cheapest-venture-capitalist/ Maciej Cegłowski’s new startup fund was the toast of Silicon Valley on Friday, lighting up Twitter, winning top billing on the elite Hacker News forum, and drawing dozens of applications from would-be portfolio companies.

Web design for beginners: a crash course in appealing to the brain, eyes and heart

http://sgentrepreneurs.com/2012/07/25/web-design-for-beginners-a-crash-course-in-appealing-to-the-brain-eyes-and-heart/ For online businesses, good web design helps you to stand out from a sea of competitors and adds great value to users. Achieving good web design though, can be deceptively difficult.

Eduardo Saverin joins the stateless billionaires

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/05/17/eduardo-saverin-joins-the-stateless-billionaires/ The United States is the only country in the world which applies the same tax regime to all its citizens, regardless of where they live: nowhere else are nonresidents charged the same federal tax rate as residents. And this makes America’s plutocrats qualitatively different from every other country’s super-rich. If you wanted to sum up Eduardo Saverin in three words, you could do a lot worse than Very Rich Eurotrash.
By JENNY STRASBURG , JACOB BUNGE and GINA CHON The Nasdaq Stock Market said on Sunday it bungled Facebook Inc.'s FB -1.95% initial public offering, acknowledging that technology problems affected trading in millions of shares. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303610504577416530447015656.html

Nasdaq's Facebook Problem

It’s springtime in America and that means it’s proxy season, when most publicly traded companies hold annual meetings, and shareholders elect corporate directors. So it seems a good time to review the state of corporate governance: It’s slipping.

Silicon Valley Is Moving Backward on Shareholder Rights

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-03/silicon-valley-is-moving-backward-on-shareholder-rights.html
Authors no longer have to impress stodgy English majors to get their book a quality review: new research from the Harvard Business Review shows that the aggregate rating of Amazon reviewers are every bit as good as professional book critics. Professional book critics, on the other hand, suffer from nepotism: critics give more favorable reviews to their colleagues, authors who agree with their ideological slant, and if the book has been given an award by other critics.

Amazon Killed The Book Reviewer Star

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/15/amazon-killed-the-book-reviewer-star/
http://nymag.com/news/features/mark-zuckerberg-2012-5/

The Maturation of Mark Zuckerberg

I f all goes as planned, Facebook will finally pull the trigger later this month on its long-salivated-over IPO. The deal could value the company in the neighborhood of $100 billion, making founder and CEO Mark Elliot Zuckerberg’s own unusually large stake worth $25 billion.
Editor’s note: Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder and CEO of Scripted.com , a marketplace for businesses to hire freelance writers. Follow him on Twitter @subes01 .

How To Raise A $1M Seed Round

When I read over law paperwork, I’m like When someone asks what is our business model, I’m like

Running a startup

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By SPENCER E. ANTE
On the surface, value propositions seem incredibly straightforward.

Must-read for founders: A VC explains how to build a killer value proposition