@BobOkabe
 Mostly Chicago
Joined March 2010
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The skills gap is a manifestation of a mindset gap: a deeply held belief that someone else will determine what one needs to learn and do in order to be successful. #externallocusofcontrol
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Hey @DeparturesMag just received your July-August issue. No people of color in any of the images in articles or ads except for hotel or restaurant staff ready to serve. Wondering why...
12.10.15 @BobOkabe will be teaching an Angel Investing Overview in Illinois! Book a 2016 class for your group today!
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@TimKeaneGAI just announced as winner of Excellence in Entrepreneurial Education award at WI Early Stage Symposium. Congrats!!
Two empty planes sitting at gates and a full crew ready but @SouthwestAir keeping 40+ people waiting almost 4 hours in Louisville. Why???
@AngelResource @BobOkabe preseting Term Sheets program ow.ly/BUkTp to Enterprise Angels next month. #angelinvesting #education
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You can't talk yourself out of problems you behave yourself into. Great perspective for entrepreneurs by @tullman
Over 150 entrepreneurs making connections at #GBAMentorClinic
In the top 5% most viewed LinkedIn profiles- should I feel good about me or sad for LinkedIn that I'm part of the best they can do?
#nextbigthing Is a great list of cool startups by WSJ at on.wsj.com/QyNp31. I think healthcare IT makes the list next year.
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On crowded bus toward home. 8 on cell phone so far. 7 women, 1 man. Not 1st time. Random event or cultural difference?
Live debate- is venture capital still relevant #GEC2012
A case for startup tough love- ow.ly/75kwN. Many (but not all) of the entrepreneurs I've advised will think I wrote it. Wish I did.
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Great companies @ Excelerate Labs demo day!
Do incubators foster innovation and job growth? This report says that a big one in Silicon Valley doesn't work- http://ow.ly/64zy4
Out of the box idea on how to increase the availability of startup capital at- http://ow.ly/5KvDx is fresh but too simplistic to be...
Sometimes Mark Suster's thoughful musings on startup funding make me wonder why anyone else blogs about it at all- http://ow.ly/5bl15
Can creativity be taught? Watching my kids grow up I don't think so but one university is trying- http://ow.ly/5bkEy. Smart or crazy?
Gone for a while- big office move plus travel. A VC who values angel investors fairly is Bob Pavey. His thoughts at- http://ow.ly/4RIkL
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