The Story of a Pathological Entrepreneur By John M Willis  The world might have easily missed the fact that William von Meister invented AOL had Steve Case not shown up for his memorial service on May 20, 1995. Family and friends were amused ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisor P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisor P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

Organizing the unorganized There may be no bigger opportunity online for bootstrappers than finding people who would benefit from being connected and then connecting them. Not so they can waste time sending digital love notes back and forth, but so ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

4 Keys to Success with Social Media By Brent Leary To gain insight into how to use social media in your business, look to the successes of some of the entrepreneurs who use the medium best. Hosting an Internet radio program over the past ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and possibly misspelled message…I have fat fingers. Posted via ...Read More

One Scoop of Sebastion Joes Pavarotti Ice Cream… 4 Shots of Espresso… I think my life just changed. Compliments of Bean Good Cafe in St. Louis Park, MN See and download the full gallery on posterous Steven Ladin Chief Executive ...Read More

One Scoop of Sebastion Joes Pavarotti Ice Cream… 4 Shots of Espresso… I think my life just changed. Compliments of Bean Good Cafe in St. Louis Park, MN See and download the full gallery on posterous Steven Ladin Chief Executive ...Read More

My Personal Journey- I’m 33. I’ve lived with breast cancer. I’ve seen its face, felt its anger, tasted its frustration and heard its terror. At age 15, we were introduced. While others my age biggest concerns revolved around first kisses and driving ...Read More

The Levy flight Clay Shirky taught me this very cool mathematical concept that shows up in nature, and now in marketing and social media. An animal that forages will hang out in a small area, looking for nuts or berries, then will ...Read More

See and download the full gallery on posterous Steven Ladin Chief Executive Officer Ladin Ventures, LLC • Commercial Real Estate Advisors M: 612-387-9617 P: 763-331-3010 F: 763-331-3014 E: sladin@ladinventures.com Twitter ID: @LadinVentures www.LadinVentures.com —Sent from my E-Gadget. Please excuse my abbreviated and ...Read More

April 4, 2010 OP-ED COLUMNIST Start-Ups, Not Bailouts By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Here’s my fun fact for the day, provided courtesy of Robert Litan, who directs research at the Kauffman Foundation, which specializes in promoting innovation in America: “Between 1980 and 2005, virtually all net ...Read More

Eric Ries is changing how software companies form companies, build teams, and ship software that rocks customers’ lives. He writes http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/and has popularized the term “lean startups.” Are you building software that anyone wants? His ideas will shake your assumptions of ...Read More