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		<title>Thanksgiving Eve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetIt's 6pm on Thanksgiving Eve, and here's the view from my desk out across the office. We're busy, we're in the final ramp up to the three biggest food and wine days of the year: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year and we're still working. I'm not from here, and my family all still live back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/11/23/thanksgiving-eve/</link>
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		<title>Expanding the Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetLot18 started in a Starbucks (there were 2 of us back then), from there we graduated to a cube rented from Snooth (6 people), pretty soon it was 2 cubes and a satellite office for the dev team and myself - generously loaned by Ziff Davis (that saw us to 20). After that, and having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/11/08/expanding-the-office/</link>
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		<title>Responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetYesterday we announced (here and here) that Lot18 raised a Series C financing of $30m. This is the third round of capital we've raised in 12 months, and it brings the total we have raised to nearly $50m. We're incredibly excited by what we've been able to offer so far and this additional funding will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/11/06/responsibility/</link>
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		<title>Clarifying things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThe governing body for California's wine industry (the Alcohol and Beverage Commission / ABC) released a seismic document today. In it they clearly defined how third parties could work with wineries to help them sell their wines. The advisory is here and the press release here. Lot18 was quick off the mark, emailing our trade partners here, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/11/01/clarifying-things/</link>
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		<title>Its the little things that count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetWe work hard to deliver an experience for our members, and in doing so the details count. Even if many of the subtleties of what we do go unnoticed by our members, we're confident that overall people will enjoy their time on the site. I got to see the site as a user would the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/10/23/its-the-little-things-that-count-2/</link>
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		<title>Its the little things that count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetYesterday our office internet went out for an hour. Despite the fact that we pay for multiple redundant lines and have a router that is supposed to offer seamless failover, we lost connection. There's not much work we can do without the net, and pretty soon we had 100 people wondering around the office chatting. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/10/08/its-the-little-things-that-count/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Flatter Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetImitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Then consider Lot18 collectively flattered... This one makes the short lived 'Lot18 doppelgänger' BeyondTheCellar site pale in comparison. By the way, Lot18 is on the left in each case. &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/09/30/dont-flatter-me/</link>
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		<title>May you employee 100 people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI just finished reading Business Stripped Bare by Richard Branson, and he references an ancient Chinese proverb: "may you employee more than 100 people". The idea being that it's a double edged sword. On one hand it means that you've built a successful business, or at least a big one, but on the other, with that many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/09/29/may-you-employee-100-people/</link>
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		<title>What I do all day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetPeople often ask me what I do all day. Or, more specifically, they are often surprised at how many things occur in the company that I don't have direct control over, or, in some cases, don't even know about. I was standing in the Lot18 kitchen the other day foraging for snacks, and one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/08/29/what-i-do-all-day/</link>
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		<title>When the web goes down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetApologies to anyone that tried to visit Lot18 between about 11:00pm and 11:45pm ET on Monday night, as the site was unavailable. Specifically, the site itself didn't go down so much as the whole hosting service we rely on - Amazon's run East Coast data center (East 1) - bringing down other companies including: Foursquare, Instagram, Netflix, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bojago.com/2011/08/11/when-the-web-goes-down/</link>
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