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Dan Shapiro, Glowforge
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Dan Shapiro is CEO and cofounder of Glowforge, a startup that's creating the first 3D laser printer. Previously, he accidentally launched the bestselling boardgame in Kickstarter history when he crowdfunded Robot Turtles, a game that teaches programming fundamentals to preschoolers. Before his detour as a boardgame designer, Dan spent two years as CEO of Google Comparison, a Google subsidiary that operates comparison shopping products. He landed at Google when they bought his previous company, comparison shopping website Sparkbuy. Before Sparkbuy, he was founder and CEO of Photobucket.
You don’t need a business plan
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You don’t need a business plan

Dan Shapiro, Glowforge May 15, 2015 4:00 PM
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Dear VCs: Clean up your websites

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