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Entrepreneurial Journey Takes Melvin Brewing To Denver’s Heights and Beyond

The Startup Magazine

As the founder of the company, he has been steadily expanding the company’s reach through the building of new brewpubs and breweries in many Western cities. The brewery has experienced a high level of success in the regional market, with a wide distribution in Wyoming and a satellite brewpub in Bellingham, Washington.

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Succeeding in Venture Capital as an Introvert

Hunter Walker

Working with founders. You might think I’m referring to the time spent with a founder before deciding to make an investment in their startup, and certainly, there are moments where an in-person conversation can be the difference between Deal or No Deal. My 2022 will hopefully include a return to events like these. Work-life balance.

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An Update on Indie.vc

Bryce Dot VC

In that same time we’ve hosted 4 meetups in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco and Portland. Each of these in person discussions has helped us to better get a sense for what’s resonating, what red flags need to be addressed and how founders are viewing what it is we’re trying to do. Distributions The heart of the indie.vc

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

These are with no doubt worthwhile goals, but I’d like to pose an important challenge for founders: Make learning and development your key resolution in 2013. Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. Narrative and Comms Design by Portland State University.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. I remember specifically one of the founders that we’d backed, when we kind of shook hands on our first investment said they were never going to raise anymore money and keep the team close and small. Then we put a 5X cap on the distributions.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

I believe this is an important post for both founders and investors in the Bay Area and outside the Bay Area to read carefully. I have lots more to share on this for founders, so hopefully, I can get through it during the summer. Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.