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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . VC is one of the very few asset classes where past performance is predictive of future results, so reputation does have a meaningful impact on returns. – Thesis.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . VC is one of the very few asset classes where past performance is predictive of future results, so reputation does have a meaningful impact on returns. – Thesis.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

The 85,000 farmers in the cooperative are co-owners in the company. The Stanley brothers – founders of Charlotte’s Web – know this well. Ever since President Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1971, cannabis has gotten some pretty bad PR. By putting their money and their business where their mouth is.

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

Up and Running

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. Entrepreneur Zack Price was selected to be a Project Glass Explorer for Google. He said this. Tech-Nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you.

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

The 85,000 farmers in the cooperative are co-owners in the company. The Stanley brothers – founders of Charlotte’s Web – know this well. Ever since President Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1971, cannabis has gotten some pretty bad PR. By putting their money and their business where their mouth is.