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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walk

Hunter Walk: You started at Instacart in 2013, just a year after it was founded, which obviously turned out to be an epic decision. Nilam Ganenthiran : The story of me joining Instacart in 2013, is actually rooted in an epic bad decision. Rafa runs Background Capital, and is one of the best partners for early company builders I know.

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Bootstrapped CPC rule of thumb: ARPU/25

A Smart Bear: Longform

But since you don’t, in my experience (and in a non-scientific survey of some of the 100 startups currently officed at the fabulously Capital Factory co-working space in Austin), a good pre-data rule of thumb is 20 months. If you do have data, the simplistic calculation is [expected months] = 1/c where c is your monthly cancellation rate.

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Cision acquires TrendKite (Dreamit 2013) for $225 million

Dream It

Founded in 2013 by AJ Bruno, Matt Allison, and Patrick Brannen, TrendKite participated in the 2013 Dreamit program. Dreamit invests in startups with demonstrable traction that are looking to rapidly gain customers, initiate new partnerships and raise capital.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Why Every Entrepreneur Needs to Blog

This is going to be BIG.

Time to get cracking on some new initiatives in 2013. Ok, it's still resolution time, right? and I can't argue strenously enough for investing the time into a blog this year if you've started a company. Forget the fact that you can't write or it takes a long time. These are things that go away over time.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

Both Sides of the Table

Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. In San Fran you find more recently established VCs like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle, Kii Capital and others. Our lease runs out in 2013. And with startups so go VCs.