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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. You didn’t join startups then.

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The Perils of Founder Fighting

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Yesterday I wrote a post about “ the politics of startups ” in which I asserted that all companies have politics, which in its purest sense is just about understanding human psychology. In my mom’s case she lost a friend permanently that made it awkward in our social interactions in the small Jewish community in Sacramento.

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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

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She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. Startup Advice' Now let me walk you through a broader story because avoidance of the word in and of itself will seem cliche. Stay with me. When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. She was a natural leader.

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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.” We got along and shared stories about the startup market. We worked together just shy of a year and during that period of constantly seeing startups Aaron made the decision that he actually wanted to be an entrepreneur more than a VC.

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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. That is the reason I am so supportive of the Startup Visa movement that has been so successfully championed by Brad Feld, Dave McClure, Eric Ries, Shervin Pishevar and many others. Irony, hey?).

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

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It’s not just big in Dallas but in San Diego, Phoenix and Sacramento but also Boston, Chicago, Washington and of course San Francisco. I have no doubt that multi-billion startups will disrupt this business with both a higher-quality product and lower costs. How valuable are these legacy businesses? And here’s the thing.

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How Businesses Can Be Sustainable And Profitable

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In some cities, such as Sacramento, this is already the case and has been for years. The post How Businesses Can Be Sustainable And Profitable appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Other cities, in response to the crisis are considering buying the lines from P.G. & Local sustainability just makes good sense.