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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walker

DC: As a lifelong entrepreneur, Greenhouse is now basically the largest company I’ve been a part of (and has been for several years) so I’ve had to learn a ton over the years about how to scale myself. The TPG Growth Fund invests behind companies, teams, and strategies that they believe in and where they can help accelerate their growth.

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Twitter Link Roundup #166 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

13 Entrepreneur Blogs that Educate, Enlighten and Inspire | Mavenlink Blog – [link]. Good (short) video interview with Kevin Willer about the value 1871 Chicago offers entrepreneurs – [link]. Leveraged buyout will help Dell pay investors while minimizing taxes | Slate Magazine – [link].

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My Career Regret - The Money and Interestingness Trade

This is going to be BIG.

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money.

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Retailers: Don't Track Me, Bro

This is going to be BIG.

I was on the team that did a leveraged buyout of AMF, the bowling alley company--so I''ve looked at lots of plans to upgrade in venue customer marketing. Don''t get me wrong--I have the utmost respect for the entrepreneurs behind these products and as a data wonk, I love the idea of sophisticated customer traffic analysis.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneurs, people who have a different view giving them the ability to run experiments, but not at great cost because there's also a lot of cranks and cooks and you wind up finding a lot of junk in order to get those few winners, that's the whole point. Eric Ries : What is it about the entrepreneurs/customer mentality?