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Accelerator Hacks or How I learned to stop worrying and sit next to Mitch Kapor

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Over the course of the life of my Startup AisleFinder, as Well as Supermarket API, Ive had the opportunity to be part of 2 Great Accelerators Microsoft BizSpark (Twice), and NewMe Accelerator (once).

In this Article I explain some of the hacks(although I didn’t know it at the time) that helped me make my bones,talk graci

5 Startup Lessons From Anthony Bourdain

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Anthony Bourdain is one of my heroes , not only did he battle alcohol and heroin abuse and still live to write and reflect on it in his memoirs,go on to be one of the forefront culinary minds as far as exposure to the world of not only cooking but eating.

Overall,the guy has style.

While

2 Million Users

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Like many startups when we first started AisleFinder in 2008 we had a magic number in mind as far as how many users it would take in order to feel as though we made a dent in the grocery game.

4 years later I refle

Facebook: A Game of you.

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I was driving in the car with my wife today and we got to talking about how we are now in a culture where we share everything online.

I told her that we are now in the culture of “me” what i did where i am going , where i ve been , and who I know.

I then told her something that shocked me

Anthony Frasier is the new face of Black Startups.

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My version of The Root 100 [InfoGraphic]

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This is the Root 100 which was Published today
http://www.theroot.com/views/root-100-2011-list#inline46

Below is an InfoGraphic showing that same list without Politicians,TV Personalities,Athletes,and Entertainers.

I love everyone of them that was on that list, but I just thought i would try this little experiment to see what

Crossover

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Yesterday I re-read an article by one of our mentors in the NewMe Accelerator Vivek Wahdwa.

entitled “We need a black Mark Zuckerburg” .

What I i

Why We Changed our Logo

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Recently I changed our AisleFinder brand mark and logo to a more stylized version.

I just wanted to explain a the switch and all the thoughts involved.

Old Logo

How we approach Writers/Bloggers to be written about.

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