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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

Amie Wolken walked into Augview one day in 2012 and said, “I’m fresh out of uni. I love AR. I want to be a developer. I want to work here.” – so we gave her a job. I’m no longer on my own and together we can do this. It’s now or never.”

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” .

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products. You have to go back to the drawing board and understand, why are people calling me, right? It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012. Vidit Aatrey [27:50] – Over time they also came on board.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

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. I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. The MOC Nolan Church: Yeah.

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How Will We Value a Crypto Token?

Tomasz Tunguz

If I buy one share of a public company stock, I can vote in the shareholder decisions and receive dividends if the board elects to issue one. It functions like a board and shareholder base. A company’s board can create more stock simply by passing a motion. A DAO is the governance organization of a crypto company.

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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. Watching him develop over the past 4.5 This latter bit is very important to us and very hard to achieve.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. Deep research and quantitative frameworks are sorely lacking in today’s short attention span news approach. I could hardly wait to dive in and see the approach.