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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. I took this picture of Rob, Michael Galpert, and Danny Wen of Harvest. We got the round done with some great names around the table--Jason Calacanis, Chris Sacca, and General Catalyst. That was the year Twitter took off.

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12 Terrific Coworking Spaces in Chicago

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Since 2007 it’s helped find, fund, and nurture technology companies out of its 65,000 square foot workspace in downtown’s Lyric Opera building. This coworking space gets its name from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but not to commemorate the fire itself. Merchandise Mart Plaza. Suite 1212. 4101 North Broadway.

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The 10 Best Brick-And-Mortar Store Experiences

YoungUpstarts

Customers can do everything — from having their own peanut butter freshly ground to stocking up on olives from an olive bar to getting a sustainably-harvested piece of salmon cut and marinated. Macy’s also has a notable store in downtown Chicago, which it took over from Marshall Fields in 2007.

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Transcript of Monetize Your Expertise and Thrive

Duct Tape Marketing

She is a marketing and strategy consultant and frequent contributor to Harvest … not Harvest, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and Forbes. Whereas, if you happened to join in 2006 or 2007 and even if you were a regular person, you could become the Twitter celebrity and gain a lot of traction as a result of that.

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Episode 11: Business Buzzwords, False Assumptions, and Content Tips from Joe Pulizzi | the Bcast

Up and Running

Peter : There are things that are so common that they have a set of names, the typical, logical fallacies. Once we do that, we want to harvest the audience. Jonathan : Now let’s start talking about some ways of thinking that could be an error and could affect the way you operate your business. Going into the last three steps.

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