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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. Hey, we got to raise again next year. Let’s deploy faster!

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The two powerful skills every 10X entrepreneur needs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

He is founder of Arowana , a B Corporation which invests in, operates, and grows sustainable companies. Martin Bell, who sits on Arowana’s advisory board, founded 100tasks.com to democratize entrepreneurship and is an expert in launching and hyper-scaling companies. People and Culture.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 So What Does All This Mean?

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Canada’s Assent Compliance lands $350M from Vista Equity for supply chain data management

TechCrunch

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. For manufacturers in particular, managing intricate supply chains can be particularly challenging.

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Quip’s new $100M round will usher in more than just clean teeth

TechCrunch

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015.

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Kaiyo gets $36M Series B for its secondhand furniture marketplace

TechCrunch

Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. . He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. Selency raises $3.3

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A Few Surefire Ways to Support the UN SDGs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In entrepreneurial circles throughout the world, there is a lot of chatter about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) —17 goals to address some of the world’s most challenging socioeconomic, environmental and lifestyle issues. When I became president, the culture of the EO New York chapter was not great.

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