“So these are my top 10, shall I say, discoveries, lessons, and rules for entrepreneurs and intrepreneurs–for all of you who are trying to change the world. The first thing I learned is that the people who change the world–the people who really make a difference–aren’t motivated by money. I learned this lesson the hard way because as a venture capitalist we have to fund people, and as an entrepreneur I have to raise money. I noticed something 20 years later, which is that the people who failed were the ones who said, ‘We want to make money, that’s what motivates us.’”

“Zookoda is an email marketing application designed specifically for bloggers. Zookoda enables you to send a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your vistors inbox. Oh…did we mention — it’s all FREE!”

“As some of you may know, I recently started my own company. It’s going well and I’m learning a whole lot about how to run a business. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned so far — something anyone thinking about going into business for themselves should know — can be summed up in four words: Don’t be an employee.”

“How often have you had a fabulous idea that you could make a pile of money from? How often have you said to yourself ‘man, I could definitely do a better job than this company?’ How often have you turned these thoughts into thriving businesses? Forget the 90% of Businesses Fail Statistic — Most Never Even Get Started!”

“Paul LaFontaine left Bertelsmann Music Group in March 1997 to advise other businesspeople about radical honesty. He has lots of work to do. ‘There are as many lies in business as there are people in business,’ he says. Here are his nominees for the five most common lies…”

“#1) Start a blog: I can attribute at least six figures of income to my blog (that doesn’t include the two decimal places!). Can you afford not to try it for yourself? #2) Get good help: The first step is admitting that you have a problem. I suck at certain things, so I’ve found people to work with that don’t suck at those things to do those things for me.”

“Have you ever thought about using your current job as a launchpad for your own startup? In an article I wrote for the May issue, I found five entrepreneuers who did just that. Here are the five rules I culled from their experiences…”

“Copywriting skills are an essential element to the new conversational style of marketing. Whether you’re looking to sell something or to build traffic by earning links from others, you’ll need to tell compelling stories that grab attention and connect with people. This tutorial is designed to get you up and running with the basics of copywriting in ten easy lessons…”

“Are you working harder and harder and feel like you’re getting nothing done? The problem may lie in your mind, not in your ability to organize your schedule. Piling on the intensity is the typical response of a potential workaholic to increased job demands.”

“I was on a panel this week with some really good VCs and several equally high quality entrepreneurs. The topic was managing a Board and we covered a bunch of important topics. One subject that came up was communicating with your board and investors. One of the entrepreneurs said that she had been advised to send a weekly status email to her board and investors and she cringed when she thought of that.”

“The weird thing about getting a little publicity is that you start to get kooks coming out of the woodwork. People write wanting to ‘collaborate’ on something but mostly they just want to get popular without working. The conferences you go to have lots of ‘independent consultants’ offering advice but they are really just unemployed. And if you ever try to hire people, as Whodini so eloquently put it, ‘the freaks come out at night.’ Indeed.”