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A stealth company has been busy working on a new online service.

Your MyAdvisor Garage gives you the ability to create your own personalized summary of the Advisor Garage site, other sites via RSS feeds and add 'droplets' such as Top Tech Blogs, Facebook, Twitte

The Advisor Garage Community offers entrepreneurs, advisors, angels and VCs the opportunity to connect, ask questions and help each other with their businesses through Groups, Blogs, Forums and much more.  

We have just added the 'People' Tab to help members connect, link together and communicate via our built in private messaging.  The People section can be searched by member type and includes member photos and a click through to your personal page. Each person's personal page includes the ability to private message or 'connect' with that person so you can build your entrepreneurial network.

Please update your personal page and include your favorite photo.

Hopefully you read the previous post “Create that Winning Startup Idea” and tried one of the following suggestions for coming up with your personal ‘Winning Startup Idea’.

Just as a reminder:

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The PICNIC Green Challenge calls on creative, innovative minds to come up with concrete solutions to fight climate change. Anyone with a good idea for a product or service that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in a consumer-friendly way and contributes to a sustainable lifestyle is welcome to take part.

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Want to start a business? Have the necessary passion to start a new business but are unsure where to start? Looking for that new, innovative, winning new business idea?

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This is a guest posting by Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, a company that enables people to buy homes online.

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Advisor Garage offers free classified ads to all members of the Advisor Garage community - Recruiting? Need something? Want to sell something?

Post a free classified ad today!

http://www.advisorgarage.com/community/node/add/ed-classified

Having been a CEO of three startups, I can honestly say that I have never been a great CEO. I probably thought I was at the time, but that's part of what being a Startup CEO is all about...not knowing what you don't know but having the courage to give it a shot anyway.  Maybe I've picked up some lessons along the way...let me know what you think.

We would like to offer our members the opportunity to promote themselves or their businesses to the Advisor Garage community.  Members gain points as they contribute to the Community by inviting others, creating a blog posting, comments and so on.

We would like to offer active members a free text or image ad for one month when they gain at least 250 points for relevant member content by September 30th 2007.  So the small print here is the points must be gained for adding value to the community...if someone votes for your content you get points, if they vote it down you lose points. Nice and simple huh!

Example:  Invite 10 people = 50 points / Add 5 elements to a forum = 15 points / 3 blog posts = 9 points

Perhaps create a new Group and Invite members = More points!  You get the gist...

You don't have to wait for venture capitalists or angel investors to lend a hand. Follow these tips to get the ball rolling on your own.

I reached out to Vivek Wadha, and asked him if Advisor Garage could repost this great Business Week article.  A useful perspective if you are considering Venture Capital investment.  

++ A veteran entrepreneur tells you what you should know about venture capital before you sign on the dotted line.