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Garry Tan is the next president and CEO of Y Combinator

TechCrunch

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. Ralston continued. Next year, I'll be going back to Y Combinator as President and CEO.

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Why Seed Funds Have Scaled

Haystack

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013.

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My US$15-Million Lesson in Choosing a Business Partner

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In fact, I lost more than $15 million dollars in 2010 in the demise of my manufacturing business because I was vulnerable to my partners and bankers. He is also the president of Idea Gateway which works with its client partners to reach the next level of excellence through effective business planning and strategy.

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. 2010: Every touchpoint matters. The post Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business appeared first on THE BLOG.

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How Hiring a Virtual Assistant Can Help Your Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

Tricia Sciortino is the CEO of Belay, a virtual/remote staffing agency that has been operational since 2010. Aside from virtual assistants, Belay has other services such as bookkeeping, social media strategy and website design. Sometimes they are young and don’t want to dedicate resources to bringing anyone on board.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on.