Eric Edelstein

I try not to buy pirated DVDs now, except movies I want to watch immediately.
Chinese Citizen Comments on attempts to stop Piracy in China in a Business Report article

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How does one measure Return on Effort? Today was one of those crazy days where a quick Vida coffee meeting turned into a tornado.
It started with a facebook conversation where I sent a message to someone I didn’t know but wanted to know - within 12 hours we had sent a number of messages back [...]

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Desperate housewives is on in the background, and I’ve just seen a message from a few days back from someone letting me know she reads my blog regularly. And then I looked at her blog…
The greatest Niger fan you can find - this blond Scandinavian cannot think of a better way to live her life [...]

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I was in the press again Friday when the Mail & Guardian discussed my recent blog posting entitled The Times Hypes Up The Sunday Times
After Shelly & Gavin played me the weekly M&G podcast called Flamebait, we discussed it, and the reason I think Vincent and Nic missed the point of my post, is because [...]

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This months Coffee Club ISN’T taking place @ the Extreme Hotel and IS even MORE than a hyper-networking drinks session with words of wisdom from a SINGLE Making it Happen Entrepreneur.
The Open Coffee Club for July is combining with the Nomadic Marketing Dinner.
The Nomadic Marketing programme at UCT GSB is taking place this month, and [...]

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In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else [...]

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Open Coffee founder, Saul Klein, let me know today that a new incubator for early stage Internet Start-Up’s has launched.
Seedcamp is inviting applications from new start-up’s, are choosing 20 for the selection round, and the winning 5 will be given 50 Thousand Pounds seed capital for a 10% stake, together with intense mentoring and introductions [...]

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The story behind why this video is a MUST WATCH…
About 2 years ago I was sitting having lunch with Alec Hogg from Moneyweb, and Alec mentioned a conference he had attended called Davos.

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