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Five People You Want to Seek Out at Monday's ExitEvent Startup Social

Posted by | Mar 20, 2014

Hard to believe that we’re coming up on Startup Social #29 on Monday (March 24th). What started as a little get-together that got out of hand turned into a… larger get together that’s still pretty much out of hand. But even with all that history and all the noise that I’ve made about the value of the Social over the last three years, the message still doesn’t get as far as I’d like. No agenda? No speeches? No name tags? “Well, what the hell do you do there?” The uniqueness of the Social is the fact that you can...

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An Insider's Guide to Surviving South by SouthEast

Posted by | Nov 4, 2012

Yeah, look, I know. I get it. Startup-related events are a drag on minding the store. And there’s no way to hide or put sugar on the fact that this week is super-loaded with a perfect storm of events. I can tell you this — it’s imperative that you manage any gains you’ll get out of these events against the losses in time and productivity towards building your company. A few weeks ago, I called this week South by SouthEast, and there really is an opportunity here to inch Raleigh and Durham a little bit further on the map...

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