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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. I made some reference calls. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable. They were effusive.

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The Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups

Both Sides of the Table

One day if you’re lucky you’ll be big enough to work with recruiters to hire senior members of your team or your board. And in it he profiles the work of Coach Campbell who was once on the boards of both Google & Apple. EXECUTIVE RECRUITERS. It’s a great read. And yes, there are some bad actors.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going.

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4 Steps to Hiring a Rock Star COO (Plus, Why You Need a COO!)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The processes I used to hire our first COO in 2012 and the second one in 2018 were basically the same and are strongly inspired by Topgrading as well as the Who Method. Testdrive and check references with the team. Testdrive and check references with the team. The 4 magical steps that will produce your next killer COO.

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Reflections from the Womenomics 2.0 Event at the Brookings Institute

Entrepreneurs' Organization

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno. .”

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Sendcloud nabs $177M led by SoftBank to double down on SaaS — shipping as a service

TechCrunch

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it). As a point of reference, Shippo — a U.S.

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Degreed’s co-founder is back at the company he left…with the startup he built

TechCrunch

He solely represented himself as the CEO of Learn In, while Degreed’s board of directors represented the other side. I was closer and more involved in operations than the rest of the directors but it was in a board member capacity,” he added. Degreed approached Learn In, and the deal closed in less than a week, he said.

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