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Can Allvoices Succeed as Citizen Journalism Platform?

"With Examiner.com recently buying outcitizen media site NowPublic for a reported $25 million, the attention turned to similar independent sites such as Allvoices. Would it now become buyout fodder for a mainstream media company, or would it suffer the fate of so many citizen journalism sites that came before it, shutting down before finding a successful business model?"

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As I was reading this it dawned on me that what is missing for much of the C suite was an analytical framework. There's some of out there and many firms will tell you they have it but for applications beyond marketing they aren't tried and tested.   

Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

I had to laugh a bit reading it.  I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners.  I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not.  I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide.  BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple.  MBA fine, but not required.

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“We are not out of problems yet,” Mr. Buffett said last week in an interview, in which he reflected on the lessons of the last 12 months. “We have got to get the sputtering economy back so it is functioning as it should be.”