Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. Watching him develop over the past 4.5 years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We generally look for associates who are deeply quantitative, have great research & analytical skills and often have the tool kit for framing and making complex decisions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Tune in at 10 a.m. EST for EO’s second official “Live with EO” Facebook Live broadcast! Karen will be interviewing entrepreneur and founder of Sweet Loren’s , Loren Brill, an EO Accelerator graduate and new EO New York member. Visit our Facebook page for more stories, announcements and future “Live with EO” broadcasts.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Growth CEO’s differ from those who merely station–keep their way into the status quo, protecting the enterprise by reducing risk and cost – without creating a vision and action plan for growth. Here is a way to test yourself with a tool useful for any leader seeking to create positive change. Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been to a couple of tech events that were sparsely populated by straight white men. Yeah, can you believe it? One was a careers panel aimed at women in tech held at Flatiron School and the other was Alterconf. The goal of Alterconf is to provide safe opportunities and spaces for marginalized people in tech and those who support them by highlighting positive initiatives of local community members.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2016

SaaS startups often find themselves in one of three different states when contemplating their burn rate. The first is the David Farragut strategy. Damn the burn rate, full speed ahead. The second is the conservative approach - attaining profitability using only the cash on the balance sheet. Those two are easy. Circumstances dictate the respective aggression or conservatism.

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Thomas Grota

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Beginning of the year I blogged about the Outlook on #Fintech and #Insurtech in Europe here. I.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Today it has been announced that I’m leading a $15 million funding round in Tact , a new generation of Enterprise Software company along with other investors including Microsoft Ventures and previous investors Accel and Redpoint Rather than just waxing lyrically about how great the company is I thought I’d provide some context about why I invested and also about a fundamental change I see in the coming years in the way enterprise software is used.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Sales leaders consistently underinvest in sales team training and development. As SaaS startups scale, sales execution becomes the most tangible metric of a business’ success, and the one by which the business’ health is benchmarked. Not to mention how the head of sales is evaluated. When is the right time to invest in sales training? And how much should a business invest?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2016

“Being in Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), ultimately, might have saved my life,” says Michelle Menard , co-founder of Choice Translating and member of EO Charlotte. Founded in 1987, the organization is a global business network of 12,000+ leading entrepreneurs in 160 chapters and 50 countries. “I was dealing with some medical issues at the time and through my involvement with EO, I came into contact with a medical group who identified something that had gone unnoticed before and it really chan

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Kelly Shatat is an EO Raleigh Durham member and CEO and founder of Moon and Lola. Learn more about EO today! Why Kelly joined EO: Seeking a professional group. Often feeling that entrepreneurship can be lonely at times, Kelly was seeking a group where she could interact with other entrepreneurs. The EO organization enables her to share her thoughts, feelings, and experiences with other entrepreneurs that may have walked in her shoes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A room full of some of the top tech leaders in our country: Apple, Facebook, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Amazon, Tesla and so forth. It’s a breath of fresh air to see that Marc Benioff, who has become a beacon for protecting the rights of our most vulnerable citizens, is not in attendance. But I actually fall on the side of the issue that it’s good that our tech leaders are meeting with Trump for 2 reason: Whether I like it or not (I most certainly do not like it), Donald Trump will be

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