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The Perils of Founder Fighting

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At a young age I watched her open a bakery, which in the early 80′s was ahead of its time in serving croissants, gourmet coffee and high-end, homemade cakes, cheesecakes and french pastries for our small town of Sacramento, California (Carmichael, if you know the area). She started it with a partner, 50-50. I see it all the time.

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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

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She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. You can’t just name your own price.” Now let me walk you through a broader story because avoidance of the word in and of itself will seem cliche. Stay with me. When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. She was a natural leader. “What?

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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And there are a ton of dog sitters in Sacramento so I’m sure we’ll be able to help.” In this case somebody named Todd Adamson. He was relaxed and told me, “Don’t worry, Mark. Killina will take care of you. That’s what she’s there for – we love situations like this. ” Booked it.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

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It is a household name. It’s not just big in Dallas but in San Diego, Phoenix and Sacramento but also Boston, Chicago, Washington and of course San Francisco. Many, many markets use storage and in totally different use-cases than you’d imagine. How valuable are these legacy businesses?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. He made some mistakes on his immigration paperwork so he was forced to leave the country for 8 months. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur.

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New Year, New & Improved NextView Accelerator

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You want to see some signals of success before signing your name on the dotted line. Instead, the sole goal of the program is results , namely: Demonstrably advancing a startup towards true product-market fit. Read on to learn more and decide whether this is the right program for you. This is true.

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The Secret Sauce For Smarter Marketing Execution

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18:57): And then, oh, I will never forget, I was driving to one of my clients, Ke Williams in living in Sacramento at the time, and I'm driving up to the office and look across the parking lot and financial title company, which was one of the largest title companies in the Sacramento region. And it was great until 2009 came along. (18:57):