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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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And there are a ton of dog sitters in Sacramento so I’m sure we’ll be able to help.” He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. A few years later I was in the position to hire but Aaron was way more senior than our entry-level positions. And thank you.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. Irony, hey?).

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. Should I hire or not hire this person? We’re not hiring now.

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The Secret Sauce For Smarter Marketing Execution

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7:15] How do you manage the fact that somebody is hiring you to do marketing, but you can’t really do marketing if you don’t get into every aspect of their business? [10:20] Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. And it was great until 2009 came along. (18:57):

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What’s the Difference Between Small Business and Large Enterprise SEO?

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If you think about the way you type out your own online searches with more natural and longer phrases like “kids clothes in Sacramento”, that’s how you’d approach creating a long-tail keyword for your business’s site. Small business websites should also consider including other company’s names in their content.

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25 Famously Successful People Who Started Off Freelancing

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Asimov was one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, the man who created the Three Laws of Robotics and even had a crater on Mars named after him. Isaac Asimov. But this legend got his start in the late ’30s sending his work off to be published in science fiction magazines. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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