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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. What would our culture look like? Those two exercises created an excitement towards achieving the vision of growing by 10 times, and the strategy and execution path to get there.

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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. They asked that we give them more opportunities to provide input into program strategies and “proactively reach out with new funding opportunities.” What we’re doing to improve: A culture of care. We need to communicate clearly, consistently, and responsively.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

From the age-old realms created in myths to the digital domains we traverse today in video games, the fidelity of these worlds has never been more immersive nor culturally impactful. Where UEFN best serves lovers of Battle Royale/Third Person Shooter games, you may see an equivalent for Real-Time Strategy, sports, party or 2D games.

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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. Well, I joined Google, I guess now fairly early, but it was 2004. So I’m a fan. Tomasz Tunguz: Yeah. That’s great.

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

David Teten VC

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments

TechCrunch

Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. As the culture changes, we anticipate that the 2030 “Top 40” wealth creators list will include many more people with diverse backgrounds.

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

David Teten VC

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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