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Why Would Anyone Want To Build A Startup In Cincinnati, Ohio?

I’m telling you — Cincinnati, Ohio is a great place to build startups.

3 min readJul 6, 2020

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Why Would Anyone Want To Build A Startup In Cincinnati, Ohio?

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Ep. 3 What My Startup Taught Me This Week

Content is about the LONG game [Link]

1 min readJul 2, 2020

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Ep. 3 What My Startup Taught Me This Week

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Perfect Weekly Team Meeting for Startups: Boilerplate — Week 2

After we sold our last startup, I published the 70 lessons I learned in 7 years as a founder/CEO. This time with my new startup…

1 min readJun 26, 2020

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Perfect Weekly Team Meeting for Startups: Boilerplate — Week 2

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Ep. 1: What My Startup Taught Me This Week: Boilerplate — Week 1

Last startup, I published the lessons I learned once each year. This time with my new startup, Boilerplate, I want to publish them weekly…

1 min readJun 19, 2020

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Ep. 1: What My Startup Taught Me This Week: Boilerplate — Week 1

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VC Brad Zapp Talks About Investing During COVID-19

I’ve had a bunch of conversations w/ founders and VC’s lately about how to think about raising during COVID-19. I had a chance to chat w/…

11 min readMar 25, 2020

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Startup Sold! 70 Lessons From 7 Years as a Venture Backed Startup CEO

Here are my consolidated lessons learned from running a startup for 7 years. No BS, actual lessons earned in blood.

8 min readSep 18, 2019

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Why Is Cladwell Now Free?

As of yesterday, we have removed the $8/mo fee to use Cladwell — the world’s most advanced closet management app.

3 min readOct 4, 2018

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My Plan To Die Content

I just had a dream where I had to explain to my son that I was dying of cancer.

3 min readSep 29, 2017

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Punch-ability and Fashion

This is a weird post, but I think about this a lot: when I buy clothing I ask myself “if I got punched wearing this, would I look like I…

2 min readSep 15, 2017

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If there is a relational, managerial, or philosophical disagreement:

Try to understand what the other person is saying.

1 min readSep 13, 2017

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blake smith

blake smith

CEO of Jumpdocs.com, Former CEO of Cladwell (Exited) / Father of 5/ Husband of 1 / Maker of a mean cocktail. Get coaching @ allsmith.org

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