Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. Board Observer roles were almost equally part of priced equity or convertible note deals.

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Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

As a racial justice funder, we also know that shifting power and building equity, mutual accountability, and authentic, trusting relationships are vital to our grantmaking. We are also proactively sharing our data with Candid and signing on to data-sharing initiatives, such as the Climate Funders Justice Pledge.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. Clark Rinehart.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Create and leverage a review strategy. Even more important is to take that principle and develop a plan to activate those same reviews on social media. By ensuring you have a review-friendly initiative in both search engine and social strategy, you’ll be setting yourself up for success. Customer reviews. That’s right.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. Franklin County, Forward Cities. Side Hustles and Innovation Sprints. Side Hustles to CEOs.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Our members are able to stay on top of trending investment approaches, terms and exit strategies. Developed more tools for angel groups and grew our resource library with new webinars and content. Without our members, none of our accomplishments would have been possible and our hope for the future would be unfounded.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

I wanted to work with great investors, too, and fortunately I had the ability either to work with Accel-funded companies, start my own or leverage other investor relationships I’d developed. I also knew Peter Fenton, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors and a leading funder of the company.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. FRANKLIN COUNTY, FORWARD CITIES. SIDE HUSTLES AND INNOVATION SPRINTS. Side Hustles to CEOs.

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Surdna Foundation

JULY 2, 2020

Casey Pechan of Fluxx Labs recently told the story of how Surdna shifted its grantmaking strategy to rapidly respond to the COVID-19 crisis and the needs of our grantees. And how do you reconcile short term emergency needs with long term development vision? Save everyone time by focusing on only core information for applicants.

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Surdna Foundation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Test Surdna’s assumptions about how metrics relate to its strategy interventions vs. how the foundation’s grantee partners think about them. The post Developing and Implementing Grant Metrics appeared first on Surdna Foundation. Gather feedback on Surdna’s data collection process. Read the Report. Inclusive Economies Metrics Glossary.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This was a fantastic strategy in terms of impact, raising the bar for startup excellence in key startup ecosystems and opening up access to the Venture Capital financing market to founders who couldn’t or didn’t want to relocate to the Bay Area. (YC

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Forward Cities

MAY 13, 2024

Position Summary The Forward Cities CEO will have primary responsibility for the organization’s continued growth and for ensuring that the organization’s financial, operational, program, and development functions are aligned and effective.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Practical Metrics and Methods (Practitioner Edition): Identify and develop better metrics and methods for ecosystem building. Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B We ha d several folks from my team, several of our longest-tenured PMs, all the co funders, most of the exec team.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 17, 2022

Overview The Senior Director of E3 Solutions leads the sales, development, delivery, and continuous improvement of Forward Cities equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem building solutions for communities across the country. The position will also be charged with leadership, management, and oversight of the growing E3 Solutions team.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 17, 2022

The Senior Director of E3 Solutions leads the sales, development, delivery, and continuous improvement of Forward Cities equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem building solutions for communities across the country. The position will also be charged with leadership, management, and oversight of the growing E3 Solutions team. Qualifications.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

These are primarily full-time team members, but PE funds also employ investment banks as well as freelance “finders” Nevin Raj, cofounder of Grata , said, “A typical business development associate at a PE firm earns <$100k with cash bonuses. on their site.). “So What is your typical check size? Calm Company. “We’re

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”. Arno Niazi, CEO, GoingVC said, “Take, for example, our Venture Capital learning and development program, which now has more than 250 global alumni.

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