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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. After being largely ignored by Valley investors (the biggest checks in her seed, Series A, and Series B came from men on the East Coast), she finally found support from the VC elite. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

Anyone can build a coworking space, but it''s a lot harder to attract and curate a set of folks that makes me want to move into that space. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. and figure out how to support them.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating.

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A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

As of 2019, Singapore had over $19 billion in PE and VC assets under management, more than twice that of neighboring Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand combined. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

For anyone reading this, if you work at a company with 100+ people, there is 98% chance that at least two of your coworkers are actively discussing unionizing. Endless anti-union tantrums, delivered with the confidence that only a VC who had a single personal interaction with a union 7 years ago could muster.

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Kumospace raises new cash to replace physical offices with virtual ones

TechCrunch

And ] we need to acknowledge that one virtual teambuilding event a month is no substitute for daily unstructured interactions with your coworkers.” Legendary VC firm Andreessen Horowitz recently announced that it would ditch its physical HQ in return for smaller global outposts and an online component. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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Ramblings On Time Management

Haystack

Five years ago, I didn’t think I would be a venture partner at a VC firm, or that I’d be managing a handful of seed funds (and their corresponding entities), or that I’d be responsible for three other little people. Yes, I know it’s not perfect and under strain, but that’s for another post.)