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A recent article in Fortune proclaimed Ron Conway a “start-up’s best friend.” Conway is a Silicon Valley angel investor, but his value to start-ups isn’t in the capital he provides. It is in the ...

I ran across my old Rolodex the other day, its black cover grimy with dust, the old cards gray with age, the ink on the cards faded, and the sight of this ancient artifact made me wonder: Does anybody ...

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David Rockefeller’s custom-designed Rolodex stood 5-feet high. It contained contact information for 100,000 people. The Wall Street Journal was allowed access to the closely-guarded Rolodex after the ...

POCANTICO HILLS, N. Y.—Some might say David Rockefeller, a scion of America’s greatest fortune and the veteran chief executive of Chase Manhattan Bank, was a dedicated networker long before the age of ...

Mike Royko’s Rolodex is standard issue gray and clunky and surprisingly clean. I half-expected the skunk of too-many cigarettes still clinging to it, even now, nearly 25 years after he died. It’s in ...

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Evolution is a harsh reality of technology. There is constantly a “next best thing” on the horizon, and brand new gadgets often seem obsolete by the time you get them out of the box. There are some ...

Just a few years ago there were no virtual social networks, no synchronized address books, and no smartphones. But people had social networks and phones, and they had to memorize and organize ...