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MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. Success begets success.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and I bet you it's more than one bike if I had the gas. So did you, I'm envisioning you like going down the street in Chicago somewhere knocking on restaurant doors and saying, I have an idea, you want to like be part of this.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on.

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