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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. And he said ok got it.

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It’s All About The Entrepreneur

Feld Thoughts

I’m in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. It’s two full days of immersion in the Minneapolis startup community. We are at the Techstars Retail Accelerator again today, then at Leadpages for a board meeting, and wrapping up with an internal Target event and an external startup community event put on by Beta.MN.

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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): Hey, did you know that HubSpot's annual inbound conference is coming up? She is the CEO and general partner of the investment firm, street Global. Like this show? That's right.

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Improve Your Business by Getting the Most Out of Your Data

Duct Tape Marketing

Sauer was named the 2012 CIO of the Year in Minneapolis/St. Email jeff.sauer@digitalmantis.com. It is a growing group of independent marketing consultants and agencies that are partnering and collaborating using the Duct Tape Marketing tools, and really scaling their businesses. Email jeff.sauer@digitalmantis.com.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

Feld Thoughts

A few days later, Mike emailed and asked if he and his wife Cindy could come to Boulder to spend some time with me and Amy. This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback. I told Mike I didn’t think this made any sense given our strategy and we left it at that. Julien talking about AvidXchange.

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re talking with a firm that mostly only invests in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re in Minnesota, you’re probably wasting your time for a seed or A round unless you find somebody at that firm who is from Minneapolis and comes home 2–3x / year already. Partner on the way out. Super busy partner. New partner.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

The purpose of this email is to clarify some facts, because this is an extremely confusing issue. However, the only thing I am going to address in this email is the enormous complexity that makes HB 1192 simply impossible to implement and enforce, and that is why it should be opposed.