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Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Don’t sit on your founders’ boards

TechCrunch

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. We don’t — no matter how important an issue.”

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Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives a Mission to Connect People With Popongo

StartupNation

I later moved to Denver, Colorado, and have worked in the world of banking and real estate as a partner and co-CEO of a company called Legacy Management Group since 2004. Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. Popongo was born.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. As an i2E Board member for almost a decade, what has been your favorite i2E accomplishment?

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Grantee Perception Report: What We Heard and How We Plan to do Better

Surdna Foundation

This is our fourth such survey since 2004. We’re proud that grantees noted Surdna’s focus on social justice as a strength, describing the Foundation as clear and consistent about its “strategic investments in communities of color.”. What we’re doing to improve: A culture of care. Source: Surdna Grantee Perception Report.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. And then we do score ourselves with the board, but also with the company. ” That’s reported to the board.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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