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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Winning the contract meant that we would hit our quarterly revenue figure and be in good position for our annual sales target. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me. We talked with lawyers.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Winning the contract meant that we would hit our quarterly revenue figure and be in good position for our annual sales target. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me. We talked with lawyers.

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Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

Startup Lessons Learned

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Lenore Estrada : It was terrible.

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Amazon “Swipes Left” On New York City

Haystack

In that time, the network scale juggernauts like Facebook, Apple, and Google became so successful, the cost of living increases down there are rising incredibly fast. Similar effects are seen in Seattle and surrounding neighborhoods, home to Amazon’s main HQ and Microsoft.

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Trust, But Verify

Seeing Both Sides

  The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   In truth, our industry is built on a trust model.   Prudence wins out over blind trust.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. Providers and other entities are reluctant to adopt automation and technology, primarily because of costs and other barriers. Moving a manufacturing facility is hard.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch.