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11 Feb 2006

Being in Sacramento, I often find myself a little away from the center of the blogging and startup universes. I travel to bay area parties and dinners just to network. So imagine my surprise when I was reading a post on Scott Johnson’s blog and saw it was about another Sacramento entrepreneur. I quickly grabbed Scott Hildebrand’s contact info from the other Scott (Johnson) and got in touch. It turns out he’s building a music startup very quietly.

Hildebrand and I live about 15 minutes apart, but it took a mutual friend from thousands of miles away to connect us.

Like Johnson, Hildebrand is pretty secretive about what he’s building, but he gave some of it away in a guest post on a Sacramento Business blog. That blog’s another resource I didn’t realize was in my own back yard until Hildebrand introduced me to it.

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