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    <description>Everyone on the record about small business: 9 verbatim quotes from 4 people, March 2020 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a…</description>
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      <title>JD Vance: Vance says the administration supports businesses that build domestically and invest in workers.</title>
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      <description>“That if you&#x27;re a business that&#x27;s building in your backyard, if you&#x27;re investing in your workers and trying to make a great American product, then we are on your side because you are on the side of American workers and American patriots.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>JD Vance: Vance outlines three criteria the Trump administration wants companies to meet: buy, hire, and inves</title>
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      <description>“We want companies that buy American, that hire American, and that invest in American communities.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>JD Vance: Vance describes direct SBA support for small businesses facing federal contracting issues to compete</title>
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      <description>“If you run into issues with federal contracting, they can work directly with Kelly&#x27;s team at the Small Business Administration so they can go toe to toe with their bigger peers.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley admits pattern recognition led VCs to miss HubSpot, Shopify, and Twilio due to anti-small-</title>
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      <description>“And so you develop this anti small business mindset, which keeps you out of HubSpot and Shopify and Twilio. Then miss massive amounts.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley argues venture capital patterns decay, citing how Intuit bias caused VCs to miss Shopify.</title>
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      <description>“I think the patterns have a half life and they decay. Or I saw Toby from Shopify was talking about the VCs passing on them.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gavin Baker: Baker reports small businesses are cutting software bills 30-50% in an hour by simply asking vend</title>
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      <description>“In the last two days, lots of friends have come to me and said, Hey, I told my brother, my sister, my mom, my dad, my uncle, my aunt, my friend who has a small business, that story, they did the same thing and they cut their software bill 30 to 50% in an hour.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gavin Baker: Baker recounts a dentist cutting her software bill in half in one hour with zero pushback.</title>
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      <description>“In one hour, she cut her software bill in half. One hour, she said there was zero pushback. And I&#x27;ve been telling people this story.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gavin Baker: Baker recounts how a dentist cut her software bill in half in one hour by threatening to switch v</title>
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      <description>“He said, tell Gavin exactly what you just told me. And his sister is a dentist and obviously she&#x27;s grappling with how to run her practice.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>David Friedberg: 48% of all US employees work for a business that&#x27;s got 10 or fewer employees. Now, these busi</title>
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      <description>“48% of all US employees work for a business that&#x27;s got 10 or fewer employees. Now, these businesses are not only retail.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 02:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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