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JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

This was soon after the bursting of the dot com bubble – in early 2001. At BuildOnline we had brought one new investor to the deal – a Swiss/New York investor called ETF Group. I jumped on a plane and immediately flew to New York for just 1 day to meet with the Chief Investment Officer of ETF.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. This no doubt upset my mom but luckily my girlfriend (now my wife) saw what I was going through and understood.

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MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. None are in Silicon Valley, one is in New York City, they’re spread out across the world (France, Estonia, St. The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community.

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