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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

StartupNation

Peter Lewis , Chief Marketing Officer, Strategic Pete Legal Expertise Fuels Investment Career I started with a deep interest in law, especially ERISA, which deals with retirement plans and fiduciary responsibility. I applied everything I knew about law and regulation to help clients make smart, informed investment choices.

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Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness

A Smart Bear: Longform

source My single best advice about writing⁠—whether for marketing copy, blogging, a sales pitch, an investor pitch, or even humor, is: BE SPECIFIC All done, you can stop reading now. © 2007-2025 Jason Cohen Swap generic words for specifics to make your text clear, powerful, engaging, and even funny. No Google tracking.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I''m super proud of Rob, Ben and the whole Backupify team--and this is particularly special for me because Backupify was the first investment I ever made as a VC, and the first board I ever sat on. I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. Too many angel deals just means more to watch and invest in for the ones that do succeed (if the VCs can get in at reasonable prices).

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Newsletter: Investing in the healthcare revolution

OurCrowd

The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Green light for cleantech investment. Green light for cleantech investment. Annual investment in cleantech increased tenfold from about $400 million a year to peak at $4.3 I believe we have now reached the inflection point that Doerr foresaw in 2007. Introductions.

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My Journey from GSEA Global Finalist to Digital Nomad

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A global finalist in the 2007 GSEA competition, he is now an EO Minnesota member who owns five businesses. In 2007, I competed in GSEA, starting with a local competition in Minnesota; from there I made it all the way to the Global Semifinals. Being an EO member is the best investment of time and money I’ve ever made?nothing