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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

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Rinse and repeat for 10 days and I keep reminding myself that I’ve got this to do list of new deals the stack rank and there was that company I had seen and liked a couple of weeks ago. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” (In

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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I will always remember fondly my coffee meeting 5 years ago with my friend Sam Rosen in New York City shortly after Hurricane Sandy. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm. were more distributed.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 If you have a storage need in one of these cities please consider checking out MakeSpace.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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I am in New York today and several people asked me how Bird actually works. “Do Walking is great and I love to walk around Santa Monica, San Francisco and New York City but there are sometimes I need to be 1.6 You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.” Brand matters. How does the Bird service work? Do you buy one?

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

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The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” ” I love the NY Times and am a paying subscriber. But this article missed the real trend.

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If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace

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That was the coffee meeting Sam and I had in New York. Shouldn’t you be able to scroll through your storage facility online? Shouldn’t the show “ storage wars ” be irrelevant? I’ll admit it. I’ve watched it a couple of times. It was a love fest. They built the software. They researched storage solutions and logistics.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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