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Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm

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In terms of pandemics, we remember avian flu (1997), SARS (2003) and MERS (2012). For entrepreneurs, the job now is to look past that daunting torrent and to the opportunity beyond it. Because there is opportunity. But we’ve all dealt with things that felt new and terrible at the time. Some of us remember the 2000 dot-com crash.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. I’m now back & ready for action. 44:00 -49:30).

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Making Sense of the Stock Market Drops in Relation to Venture Financing

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I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous.

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Retool, Repurpose, Redeploy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Eric Ludwig is a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Cleveland chapter, which he joined in 2003. Coronavirus has given many entrepreneurs an unlikely opportunity to embrace and truly live their companies’ core values. He is also the founder and partner of Pulsar Eco Products.

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Deal with Your Elephant in the Room

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It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). When you bring them up you take the issue off the table. I can’t say that they’ll get over the issue, but they won’t hold it against you for not bringing it up. Small story.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications.