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

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leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. I promise you, he really said this out loud.) So why now?

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The latecomer advantage in startups

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This week on Equity, I interviewed T2 co-founder Sarah Oh , who is building a Twitter rival after working at Twitter as a human rights adviser. By joining the consumer social wave today versus before anyone even thought in characters and retweets, the co-founder thinks they get to factor in more of the nuance.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Mentorship. Founder’s perspective. As You Start to Mature.

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Is A Degree In Entrepreneurship Worth It?

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With no mentorship or formal studies to support my endeavor, I struggled. As you compete for VC funding , an entrepreneurship degree may add an edge to your case or argument for why you should get funded. There are also several books and YouTube lectures to which you can refer. So how do you get that edge?

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Daily Crunch: After clinching $12.3B valuation, Brex hires Meta exec as chief product officer

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Startups/VC. Founders, that sound you just heard was the starting gun. Last year it raised $335 million , for reference. And just to squeeze in one more thing, Ron Miller has a great story up on a group that is helping women in tech thrive through mentorship. The venture capital firm, now in its 50th year, just closed $1.8

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12 ‘flexible VCs’ who operate where equity meets revenue share

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David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. David Teten. Contributor. Jamie Finney.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

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His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?