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OCTOBER 19, 2012

On Sunday I’ll be running the Detroit Marathon with a bunch of friends including my partner Jason Mendelson who is running his first marathon. Becky Cooper, our CFO, and Jill Spruiell (Jason’s EA) are also running their first marathon, as is Andrew Tschesnok, the CEO of Organic Motion. As this is my second marathon in my Random Act of Kindness series, Amy and I are again raising $10,000 for someone on GiveForward.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Today I read the following headline in the Boulder Daily Camera: “ Phillips 66 to sell 432-acre campus in Louisville. ” This was quite a reversal from the headline in the Denver Post 4.5 years ago titled “ Conoco deal fuels optimism.” For anyone who drives up and down Highway 36 between Boulder and Denver (or from Boulder to DIA) we regularly see this huge, empty, relatively ugly former StorageTek headquarters site which has been sitting “about ready to be develope

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OCTOBER 14, 2012

As Amy and I continue to crank away on Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur , I learned a funny, perplexing, and strange thing. There apparently is an editorial standard, at least at Wiley, for the words “f**k” and “f **g” F**k = F%^$. F **g = F*&^%$#. Crazy. Hilarious. Fun. Bizarre.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Every day someone shows me a Kindle and asks jokingly if I can sign Startup Communities for them. This is one moment when I wish I always carried a sharpie or a paperclip with me. I adore Kindles too much to actually ruin them, but the thought crosses my mind every time I hear the question. There is however a way for me to sign Kindle versions of my books.

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