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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud.

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

He explained how users at the time were encountering “social engineering threats” rather than “technical threats” and that his company took an “East Coast” approach to the problem as they built an automated system that rated websites. 5. We then went back to talking about how to choose the space in which your startup is operating.

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Mastering SEO in the Age of AI

Duct Tape Marketing

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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Not disruptive, and proud of it

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Google was the 11th major search engine, not the first. Their technology proved superior, but "a better search engine" was hardly a new idea. billion market cap), mid-sized (NetBotz with millions in revenue and funding), and small (sub-$1m operations like us). There were many competitors, both huge (APC with $1.5

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

All the way from 1993 to 2000. There were engineers of all types—mechanical, civil, electrical etc., and the non-engineering kinds. Mittal said that in the future, Indian IT companies would look for people with skills in mobile applications, cloud virtualization and platform engineering, as well as data scientists.

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