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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

MiTú, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. It isn’t new stuff.

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Celonis secures another $1B to find and fix process problems in enterprise systems

TechCrunch

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line).

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

RS: If you look at a decade ago when I worked for the Tor Project and they got funding, we set out to teach reporters how to use the Tor Browser. I could tell you that you should work on a laptop that runs Tails [a highly secured operating system] and a persistent volume and only ever use Tor.

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The two powerful skills every 10X entrepreneur needs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Within only 100 days, new leadership transformed the tech platform, marketing mix, and rider operations–elevating it from laggard to leader. In 2012, Martin was brought into Zalando, as the European e-commerce start-up faced intense growing pains. Delivery Hero then applied this winning playbook to struggling markets.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. The rest is noise.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . June 19th, 2012.

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