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Why We Think B2B Crowdsourced Logistics Will Be a Big Hit

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Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. Greg immediately hit the ground running with a few themes that he had developed while the CMO at HauteLook, a successful eCommerce business that sold to Nordstrom for $270 million. I wrote about him here.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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A Seed Fund Grows in Brooklyn: Announcing Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

The last year was especially helpful to me in my career development. In fact, it’s what Henry Blodget told me I should do the first time I met him--back in May of 2007 during a pre-Business Insider lunch at Coffee Shop. I was no different--and the possibility of doing something on my own has been a long term goal.

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Do Less. More.

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Everyone is a rock star developers, every company is crushing it and when they’re not crushing it they’re killing it. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact. And do the things that you ARE doing better and with higher quality.

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Women entrepreneurs find success despite lack of access to investment capital

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As we foster the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s important to design them to level the playing field for women. Since 2007, the number of businesses owned by Black women has grown by 163%. According to the National Minority Supplier Development Council, minority-owned businesses collect $1.4 Plenty of initiative.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. years ago. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Social network app developer and ad network. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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