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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. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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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. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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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 is one of those people.

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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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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.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. Assuming a marketplace rake of something like 11%, this would imply gross room revenue of over $9B for the quarter — which would be $36B annualized. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub.