Who was one of the authors of the "The Big Moo: Stop Trying to be Perfect and start Being Remarkable (2005)" and a Silicon Valley venture capitalist?
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The Big Moo The Big Moo: Stop Trying to be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable (2005) is a collection of short essays on marketing. The essays were written by 32 different well-known authors in the field. They included Tom Peters, Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban, and Dan Pink. The specific author of each essay, however, was not identified. The book's editor, Seth Godin said that to identify which author wrote what essay would have been a distraction. The goal of the book was to spark people's imaginations as well as raise money for charity. Proceeds from the book are donated to the Acumen Fund, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, and Room to Read.
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Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki (born August 30, 1954) is an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984. He popularized the word "evangelist" in marketing the Macintosh and the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism.
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David Mathison David Mathison is an author, blogger, speaker, entrepreneur, new media activist, and event producer. He is best known for his book, "Be The Media", an encyclopedic guide to how individuals, organizations, and non-profits can use new media platforms to become content creators and distributors and reach audiences previously reserved for giant corporations.
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Howard Goldman Howard Goldman (born 1945) is an American author, management consultant, executive performance coach, speaker and travel blogger.
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Peter Levine (venture capitalist) Peter J. Levine is an american engineering executive and venture capitalist.
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Ryan Bank Ryan Clayton Bank (born April 27, 1981) is an Emerging Technology Expert and Social Innovation Evangelist. Bank is the Founder of Social Intelligence Corporation, a start-up company that enables governments and corporate clients to gather Social and Open Source Intelligence. Besides advising governments and corporations on the use of Emerging Technology, Bank is also a featured speaker both nationally and internationally on the organizational value of Innovation.
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Justin Rockefeller Justin Aldrich Rockefeller (born July 12, 1979) is an American venture capitalist and political activist and a sixth-generation member of the prominent Rockefeller family.
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The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Heart's Desires is a motivational book by Robin Sharma.
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Thomas Lloyd Bell Thomas (Tommy) Lloyd Bell is an American businessman and venture capitalist.
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The Money of Invention The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth is a non-fiction book about venture capital, written by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner, Professors of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The book was first published in 2001 by the Harvard Business School Press. It is considered one of the best studies about the venture capital industry in United States.
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Mark Thompson (investor) Mark C. Thompson is an American author, executive coach, keynote speaker, businessman and venture capitalist. He is the co-author of the international bestsellers, "Admired - 21 Ways to Double Your Value", "Success Built to Last" and "Now, Build a Great Business!" as well as a venture investor, executive coach, and a producer/coach of the executive leadership program, "Leader Powertools". Thompson’s list of clients includes executives, entrepreneurs, non-profit leaders, billionaires, presidents of nations all over the world, and the leaders of small and large organizations. Thompson is CEO and co-founder of "Virgin Unite" Mentors, Sir Richard Branson's network for executive coaching and entrepreneurial innovation. Thompson is also a Broadway producer of the Tony Award-winning play "Peter and the Starcatcher" and Tony nominated "StickFly".
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Pascal Levensohn Pascal Norman Levensohn (born December 5, 1960) is an American venture capitalist, speaker and investment advisor.. He is known for having published numerous articles since 1999 on venture capital trends and corporate governance practices.
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David Siminoff David E. Siminoff is a prominent Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, along with his wife, Ellen Siminoff. They met when both were students at Stanford Business School, married in 1994, and currently reside in Los Altos Hills, California.
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Eric A. McAfee Eric Armstrong McAfee (born September 24, 1962) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist, founding and funding companies in renewable energy, oil and gas, agriculture, networking devices and enterprise software. Based in the Silicon Valley, McAfee is Chairman of McAfee Capital, a growth equity investment fund; is a principal at merchant bank, Cagan McAfee Capital Partners; and co-founded Berg McAfee Companies, a holding company.
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Kevin Harvey (venture capitalist) Kevin Harvey is a founding member of and general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He was ranked No. 27 on the 2011 Forbes Midas List and was No. 59 in 2012.
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William H. Janeway William Hall "Bill" Janeway (born May 3, 1943) is an American venture capitalist and economist. His work on the innovation economy emphasizes the strategic role played by the state and by financial speculators—sources of investment unconcerned with economic value—in overcoming fundamental uncertainty and driving the development and deployment of transformational technologies.
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Michael Baum (entrepreneur) Michael Baum (born May 28, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is best known as the Founder & CEO of Splunk a big data software technology used for understanding machine-generated data primarily for systems management, security forensics, compliance reporting and real-time operational intelligence. Baum is the founder of six technology start-ups, five of which have been acquired and one (NASDAQ: SPLK) which went public. He has also been a Venture Capital investor with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Advent International and Crosspoint Venture Partners. Baum graduated with a computer science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Vince Thompson Vince Thompson (born 1963) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, author, and the founder and managing partner of Middleshift.
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Howard H. Stevenson Howard H. Stevenson (June 27, 1941) is the Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Forbes Magazine described him as Harvard Business School’s “lion of entrepreneurship” in a 2011 article. Howard is credited with defining entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control.” "INC Magazine" described Howard’s definition of entrepreneurship as “the best answer ever.”
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Jason Calacanis Jason McCabe Calacanis (born November 28, 1970) is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture, Weblogs, Inc., a publishing company that he co-founded together with Brian Alvey, capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL. As well as being an angel investor in various technology startups,
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Bradley Tusk Bradley Tusk (born October 3, 1973) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political strategist, and writer. He is the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, a multi-faceted platform featuring multiple businesses (Tusk Ventures, Tusk Strategies, Ivory Gaming, Kronos Archives), politics, philanthropy, and writing and commentary.
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Auren Hoffman Auren Raphael Hoffman (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor and author.