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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

What's really exciting is the enthusiasm among the tech community for services that help enterprises, small businesses, and consumers alike move to the cloud. He's been in Louisville, Kentucky over the last few years and he's been talking about moving to a more robust innovation community for as long as I know him.

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9 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Business They are Starting Next Year

Hearpreneur

I’ve been flipping homes in Louisville for the past four years now and nothing has made me really inspired by the thought of scaling my operations. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Lori Cheek, Cheekd ! #2- 2- Expanding into Texas. Photo credit: Matt Rostosky. Thanks to Ana Skyes, The She Approach !

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

This struggle pales in comparison to what the Black community is suffering through. We must educate ourselves on the systemic issues the Black community faces and has faced regularly. Statement linked here and outlined below: We are a community in pain. Black Lives Matter. Police reform and reparations are urgently needed.

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Separating Regional Economic Development Fact From Fiction

Feld Thoughts

Today I read the following headline in the Boulder Daily Camera: “ Phillips 66 to sell 432-acre campus in Louisville. Bill Ritter on Wednesday revealed that ConocoPhillips has purchased the former StorageTek campus in Louisville.” Phillips 66 pulls the plug on Louisville energy campus. Related articles.

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Resetting My Priorities

Feld Thoughts

After a week at home I hit the road again around the release of Startup Communities and spent almost all of October on the road, reaching Boise, Oklahoma City, Chicago, Des Moines, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington, and Louisville. But I’m totally and completely fried. And I did it to myself.

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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

This is a community hospital in the Hopkins network and our team has created a program to take care of patients with heart failure. My talk really focuses on demystifying health care and opening it up to the Lean community. So Kapil, tell us exactly what you do? You presented at LeanUX NYC last weekend, what were your key points?

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Transcript of The Secrets to Leading Creative People

Duct Tape Marketing

Just as encouragement to you, it was really, really amazing to see your community in action there as well. You didn’t ask me to do that, but I wanted to do it anyway. John Jantsch: Well, I appreciate that, but longtime listeners know I’m not really that humble. Todd Henry: Okay.