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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. Wait, What About Yves?

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. Creative destruction will continue to create opportunities for people who understand the deflationary economics of the Internet. We did not.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). Mix it up with different agencies, people run out or creativity/contacts. Don’t and you might make one catastrophic mistake that leaves you in the annals of Effed Companies.

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Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

TechCrunch

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. We believe Miro sits at a powerful intersection between asynchronous and synchronous work that captures and ignites creative processes everywhere.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things. Congratulations! Thiel Fellowship.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Optimized SaaS pricing, recruiting growth experts, VC surveys, more

TechCrunch

HubStop introduced usage-based pricing in 2011 to boost its retention rate, then near 70%. “Incredible growth people are independent and creative and are drawn to environments that explicitly value these traits,” says Jessica Li, a content/growth professional who was previously a VC.

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