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MAY 20, 2015

We simply can’t escape our history as hunters & gatherers sitting around a fire and explaining the world to our community. It’s why I so often talk about the Power of the Narrative. And think about how brilliant Apple is at conveying emotion and product features through video. Equals emotion. Emotion = recall.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

CEO Travis Kalenick was caught on film arguing with an Uber driver about Uber’s new plans to lower fares. There was a comment in Susan Fowler’s original public post about her experience that struck me: “Travis should apologize and hire you back as a director.” Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In our industry we always talk about funding big ideas or funding things with more meaning. It’s something Yves Sisteron & I have been talking about for years at Upfront Ventures. He & Yves penned this post about feeding the world’s 9 billion people. ” Enter Grove. But it will take time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2021

For the first time in human history, we are experiencing how energy moves through populations at large. We have to think not only about what we do daily, but also what kind of human beings we are. The pandemic brought both global physical and mental health concerns. But it’s not. Creating joy and purpose in work.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

This presented an opportunity for connection with locals as well as a chance to share his knowledge, his family history, and his passions with others. His goals and values extend beyond selling coffee, as he works to give customers a virtual experience with the “the sounds, art, history, and future of Haiti and Nicaragua.”

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

First, a piece of literary history. This post is about ‘seeing.’ So my general advice is as you’re building a firm, think about which magnets feel right to you and start investing in them early. As a result I’ve seen hundreds of VC decks, all certain they will be among the top performers.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Everyone is excited when a new company gets funded in their ecosystem, but no one spends much time thinking about where the money comes from to fund that deal. This isn’t the kind of thing your average high net worth individual who occasionally does a deal would know about.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

It’s to find great entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving a problem. They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley. At best they can be your history guide. These are mostly VCs I would avoid.

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MAY 6, 2015

They are getting a sense that as VR and AR become more an important part of the computing landscape that the history of film-making and camera innovations not to mention special effects and talent will continue to propel LA’s tech market growth. Everybody now knows that LA produced SnapChat, Tinder and Maker Studios. We are a customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2015

3/ What I love about Tweetstorms is that you get engagement on each 140 chars. peretti @pmarca @bhorowitz @kanyewest prolly cuz i don’t know my history. . — Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. It forces clarity of writing & discrete ideas. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. PostScript.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

I find the recent discussion about whether accents correlate with business success disheartening. Innovation comes from those who are often less well educated (study the history of Hollywood, founded by “uneducated” Jews) or foreign born founding members (Google, Sun, Intel, PayPal) let alone reversed scientists like Einstein.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

So when they spoke about character development, repeatable gaming experiences, bringing games to multiple platforms (in the industry we call this “ Transmedia “) and physical products my ears naturally perked up. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. The results?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Thus I hear many talk about “radical transparency” when virtually ever experienced operator in my inner circle talks knowingly about that naiveté. I talk about situations like these because they are the NORM not the exception. I was thinking about this over the holiday. Foursquare? Noah Glass. Reggie Brown.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Marc Andreessen kicked off another great debate on Twitter last night , one that I’ve been talking about incessantly in private circles for the past 2-3 years – what actually IS the definition of a seed vs. A-round. I think it would have been equally annoying if I had chosen to be dogmatic about it. So back to reality.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

They’re used to overcoming challenges and quickly pivoting, and at no time in recent history has the world needed those qualities more. Contact us at hello@joinsourcelink.com to learn more about building an entrepreneurial ecosystem to serve those who take opportunities, create jobs and impact their communities.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The history of cutarras is not clearly documented: Oral tradition tells us that cutarras first appeared in Panama with the arrival of the Spaniards, who introduced cattle into the lands of the Azuero peninsula. There are only 65 artisans in the country who produce the Panamanian national shoe for a living. Nayleen Quintero. “It

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It’s not about picking investments or buying insurance products; it’s about combining investments and insurance tools through a written financial plan that helps our clients achieve their goals as efficiently as possible. History has shown that time spent in the market rather than timing the market has been a true driver to success.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The co-founder of Ann Arbor-based Duo Security, Dug Song, was so convinced that the company’s success had been born from Michigan’s business-friendly environment, world-class universities, low cost of living, and unique cultural history that he made staying in Michigan a condition when selling to Cisco. as do manufacturing workers.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For David, it is important to exchange cultures and to help his community understand how his company is built, and to know the artists and coffee experts on the ground that are passionate about their communities and about the product they are producing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Every year, a personal Upfront Summit highlight is getting to sit down with experts in a field I care about. I encourage you to watch the entire 30 minute video (below or here ) both for insights into Quibi and understanding how a leader like Meg thinks about innovation, but I’ll also pull out a few highlights.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. How do people feel about MakeSpace after less than 18 months operational in NYC?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Think about Snapchat. It has built a single-click app that assumes I want to be picked up where I am now and lists the most likely location that I will want to go based on past history. With Tact we have been able to drive weekly usage about 75% because they are using it regularly on their mobile devices.” Why Invest?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

It’s even more rare for VCs to talk publicly about other VCs, so I thought it would be fun to break rank and tell you about Matt. He’s had a ton of recent successes in enterprise software investments but also has a history in doing consumer deals. So what about this Kleiner to Menlo switch? Conclusions?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Unfortunately, if history repeats itself—and I predict it will—many companies and brands will make this mistake. I’m hearing a lot about conscious entrepreneurship , the act of prioritizing socially and environmentally conscious values for the company and its employees, which starts in the early stages of forming a business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Life seems so different after finding out about Clubhouse! You may not have heard about Clubhouse because it’s currently an app that you can join by invitation only. People drop in and out of “clubs” to hear experts about nearly any topic imaginable. audio-only conversations with other users on an extensive variety of topics.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 31, 2022

So, it wasn’t too surprising when I got back my results from Base (a subscription data-driven personal health company also in the BBV portfolio) that my cholesterol, particularly by LDL (bad cholesterol) had ticked up to the point where I needed to do something about it. You don’t have the same family history, habits, or medical history.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

One of the lessons that I learned about startups was you can move quickly alone, but you can move fast further as a team, Godby said. We were building an amazing product that connects emotionally with consumers which we tell stories about to reach people. I felt like we had a working history and trusted each other, Godby said.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

From the Sunshine State to the Windy City, and college to coastal towns, we met up with some incredible founders, ecosystem builders, and co-investors last quarter, and experienced just about every season along the way. Check out our Q4 travels in photos and itineraries below. Where we went: Chicago, IL? Where we went: Wilmington, NC?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The power of second chances After struggling to re-enter the workforce after imprisonment, Saichelle is passionate about providing opportunities to people facing similar challenges and paying employees a living wage. “We I celebrate Black History Month every month ,” she said. “I We are a second-chances employer.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2020

In venture, it’s all about getting an opportunity to make partner and being included in the carry—the economic upside of a fund. Very few institutional Limited Partners have reached out to their investors to even ask about VC policy, let along try to influence it. Not all hires, however, are made equally.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

” Strangely, the best I’ve ever heard this exemplified is in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential - which is really a book about startups as told through kitchen stories. How about asking, “If we hired Susan could you imagine considering coming with her?” Luckily we had history together.

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JUNE 18, 2017

The ability of the US economy to churn out the mechanisms of war at such a scale in such short order changed the tide of history. Today, we face different kinds of threats--and while we hear of stories about bombs and guns--the real wars are being fought with ideology, the environment and technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. The Lessons of Fab & Why You Should Worry About “Over-Funding” Your Business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Think about how much more value was created for all these constituencies (and society) by Snap staying independent vs. Instagram selling to Facebook.  —  @jasonlk How the Long Game Has Benefitted Upfront I was thinking about it this morning in particular and thinking about my own personal investment history.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

billion at $40 per share, securing a valuation of $23 billionmaking it the largest AI-related IPO in history. Microsoft alone accounted for over 60% of CoreWeaves 2024 revenue, raising questions about customer concentration risk. The company raised $1.5 The company reported $1.92 In March 2025, it signed a five-year, $11.9

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2020

During this unprecedented time in history—with record high unemployment numbers in the last few weeks alone—you have the chance to minimize business expenses and drive profit margins, turning lemons into lemonade. When inquiring about their experience, you should request references from previous employers.

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