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The Amazon Kindle is still officially CLOSED, despite the open sign

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Well, now it’s official – Amazon has finally broken a tiny crack in the tough outer shell of their Kindle, a nearly microscopic one… the BIG news about allowing lending your Kindle eBooks from one device to another is official.
The upshot is that I can now choose to make the eBooks that I [...]

Ask The VC – Venture Backed v. Self-Funded

Another installment of Ask The VC, and yet another question from our friend, Paul Merrill:
dpaulmerrill: @aveeck also, given equal $, which more likely to be profitable sooner – venture or self-funded?
In theory, there should be no difference between how long it takes for a venture-backed startup and another startup, backed with founder’s or friends-and-family money, [...]