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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. They’re nice enough to send me the board decks, but that’s about all the engagement I have at this point because I didn’t have a big enough fund to maintain my position.

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Ramon's 2020 Holiday Party: Small Business Advice from Industry Experts

Smart Hustle Magazine

You can still take advantage of all the small business advice that was shared throughout the event. You can still listen to the whole thing, but we wanted to share some of our favorite moments and pieces of small business advice. He left WSJ in 2012 and started Brian Moran and Associates. Awesome small business advice!

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What am I Thankful for This Year?

Both Sides of the Table

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. Meanwhile while social networking was white hot 3 years ago it is now persona non grata unless your user numbers are insane. Startup Advice' eCommerce was battered this year. Best, Mark.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. Companies need to evolve and so do boards. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. billion by 2014. Not so fast.

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How did she do it? A Q&A with Rita Hansen, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Onboard Dynamics

Angel Capital Association

RH: In 2012, Dr. Chris Hagen, one of my co-founders, had recently joined the engineering group at Oregon State University, when he received a seedling award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy (DOE). KP and CA: What advice do you have for early-stage founders?

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Sisterhood of Success: Female Founders Share Insights on Thriving Together

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As female entrepreneurs, we are independent-minded and innovative, and this advice is critical for securing our future and the future of our families. She provided me with so much advice on business strategy, business channels and HR. My first female mentor was the incredible Janine Allis , founder of Boost Juice.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

We’re meeting them to bring them into our network and be there as a resource to help them further their careers. So, for example, when I first started here back in 2012, there was a ton of energy being put towards building a network of executive relationships that is now somewhat more about sustaining those relationships.

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