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Rad Power Bikes raises $150 million as electric bike sales boom

TechCrunch

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. The company, which was founded in 2007, initially was a low-volume custom bike builder. Now, Rad Power Bikes is reaping those rewards and using them to double its workforce and scale globally.

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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

Both Sides of the Table

When Troy and Lady Gaga were introduced the market had been in a free fall from the financial crisis of 2007-09 and Troy had had some setbacks professionally while Lady Gaga was sleeping on her grandmother’s couch in West Virginia, having just been dropped by Def Jam Records. She was disruptive. Same with Gaga. He said that.

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Four Ways Business Owners Can Attract New Employees and Retain Existing Talent

Smart Hustle Magazine

Hold team meetings, team building events, and outside the office team meals and group activities that encourage employees to bond and reawake their networking muscles. Employees tell us they like these programs and opportunities. How The Streaming Network Created Powerful Employee Experience to Boost Employee Productivity.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!

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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

I found GroupMe at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. You can usually count on high net worth folks to be curious about a good opportunity, but it’s hard to convince someone that you’re a better opportunity than the public market when anyone who had been sitting on Tesla for the past two years was up about 8x.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers.