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Deep South Ventures

deepsouthventures.com

We’re a domain name driven web development incubator headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, and are inspired by industries that focus on purpose over profit. We build slow, not in lackadaisical, but in calm & measured. You should build this way too : ) It’s been an astonishing journey. There’s so much to learn. We’re…

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Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship

〰️ it’s weird to look back; I sometimes get confused on how I got here 〰️ Most folks dream of being an entrepreneur; “a path that seemed inevitable“, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my first ... Read more

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How on earth I became an entrepreneur

The email landed in my inbox around 10:05/am, alerting us of an all-hands meeting in 15 minutes. “Guess we got acquired”, we all thought. 16 minutes later, we were all laid off. This was February of 2001. I was first alerted of my uselessness in 1995, when ~ fresh out of college ~ I worked ... Read more