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      <description><![CDATA[Recruiting engineers is hard enough, but having to deal with fake/scam candidates makes it that much harder. You may be wondering how this whole scheme works. I certainly was, until one of our engineers at HiHello received an inbound from someone offering him $60-$80/hr just to attend a couple of Zoom meetings and pretend to be someone else on those calls.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hit Start Media is a startup that helps enterprise companies “Own your narrative.”]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We’re boiling the frog, where the frog is democracy, the health of our fellow humans, justice and equality for people of different races and genders, and most importantly the health of our planet—remember that we only have one. So I want all K9 LPs and K9 founders to know that my time, my energy, my money, and YOUR money will go to supporting these causes through the companies K9 invests in, or that I start.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pragli is a virtual office for remote teams… I often found that it was easier for me to communicate with a remote colleague on Pragli that it was to even get up and walk to the other room to talk to a co-located colleague! In my mind Pragli had nearly achieved remote-work Nirvana!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I’m pleased to announce and support the launch of Avoma, a K9 Ventures’ portfolio company that is making all of us who spend time in meetings more productive by utilizing AI. One of the big changes that has happened in business today is that an increasing amount of it is now conducted on the phone […]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A little known fact about me is that my paternal grandmother was a farmer. When we would visit her I remember running along the paths surrounded by fields of rice, wheat, grape vines, and apricots. Barring one lonesome mechanical tractor, pretty much everything else on the farm was pretty manual. The wheat would be harvested […]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones, came by to visit us at the office. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to. In fact, I can hear the intonation of his voice in my head as […]]]></description>
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