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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. Panic ensued as we couldn’t bring the dogs to San Diego and my brother’s three kids look forward to this great trip all year. They can read reviews, see pictures and even talk to the family before confirming. The Background. “Oh s**t.”

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Be determined, be diligent, be continuously learning, and be unafraid or what anyone else thinks. At that time, I had built my own social media following into the thousands (before the days of all the countless blogs on social media were created). My mother found some magazines that would have Basic programs to code.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

Two bucket list items got ahead of my blogging so I’ve combined the final two lecture weeks of the class into this one blog post. They might be hardware development, software expertise, manufacturing, launching rockets, funding, etc. Next week the teams will present their final Lessons Learned presentations. Pivot stories.

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How to Open a Marijuana Dispensary

Up and Running

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. There is a map online that shows all the San Diego county compliant properties.”.

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Cold Emails: Can They Work, Or Are They Just Spam?

ConversionXL

Review the laws for where you plan to send cold emails. Often, “successful” cold email strategies end up in a blog post, which leads thousands to replicate it, destroying its effectiveness in the process. recruiters, you may have significant segments by location, team size, budget, and existing software solutions. CAN-SPAM Act.

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