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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

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We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. He pinged me that he was thinking about joining a startup based in LA with the CEO in NYC and would I be willing to meet him and give him advice on this process. Jordan Hudson.

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies. Startup Advice' inside insight into VC decision-making.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Five Business-Building Insights from the Rise of the Rest Fund’s CEO Summit

Revolution

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. These five insights from the Summit stood out as critical business building advice that entrepreneurs all across the country can apply: 1. Leverage?—?and

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We Recast Our Business Expertise Into Valuable Incentives for Young Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). When you pitch this idea to a member initially, they might say, “I don’t have anything to offer, and I don’t want to give money.” This article was written by EO Vancouver member, Calvin Johnson.

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The Power of People: How We Recast Our Expertise into Valuable Incentives

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). When you pitch this idea to a member initially, they might say, “I don’t have anything to offer, and I don’t want to give money.” This article was written by EO Vancouver member Calvin Johnson.

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The Series A deal that launched a near unicorn: Meet Accel’s Steve Loughlin and Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig

TechCrunch

The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Ironclad launched in 2014 and today the company has raised more than $180 million and, according to reports , is valued just under $1 billion. Then, it’s time for the Pitch Deck Teardown. Make a friend!

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