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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001. It hasn’t always been as rewarding as it could be, however. Consider this.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: #OpenToWork reality check, deck-free pitching, ARR growth lessons

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” Martinez goes well beyond basic best practices: drawing from experience, he explains how he deals with meeting overload and why “performance consultants are golden” if you want to scale quickly. “This represents a huge opportunity for the startup community, and we are seeing lots of companies with a head start on this idea.”

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“AirB&E” and Disaster Response for Consumer Startups

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Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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