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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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BUZZ Doesn’t Equal BUY: Three Factors To Look For When Seeking Stocks With Long-Term Value

YoungUpstarts

As I explained in my book “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ , a company built for enduring success is recognizable if you know where to look. Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I Great strategy makes up the base of the triangle.

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Smart Like VanDerveer: Four Lessons Leaders Can Learn From The Coach Of Stanford’s Women’s Basketball Team

YoungUpstarts

In my book, I zeroed in on VanDerveer’s single-minded focus and relentless pursuit of the skills and knowledge that led to her becoming the fourth most winning women’s basketball coach in NCAA history. It got results — VanDerveer reported that some kids improved their vertical jump eight inches in three months.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. These labor matches represent the exact “world is flat” reality outlined in Friedman’s book. annual GMV.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. That’s it.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I It’s the third side of the triangle — the oft-neglected, misunderstood, and underfunded soft edge — that constitutes my book. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. I call this the “hard edge.”)

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