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Mary Grove on the Give First Podcast

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Mary has been a long time friend and supporter of Techstars and is currently a partner at Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, the co-founder of Silicon North Stars, and on the Advisory Board for the Techstars Foundation. We interviewed Mary Grove on the origins of Google for Startups & Startup Weekend among other things.

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Hanging Out In Pioneer Square

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We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board. In addition to being LPs in PSL Ventures , we are major investors in PSL Studio and I’m on the board. At some point Dan’l Lewin invited me to join the Microsoft VC Advisory Board where I had even more reasons to hang out in Seattle.

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Engine. Where Startups Come Together

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A few months ago, I joined the Advisory Board of Engine to lend my support to an organization that is doing amazing work for the startup ecosystem. That’s where Engine Advocacy comes in.

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Raving Fans – How Our Themes Evolve

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We have a straightforward meeting – a dinner for our advisory board the night before, drinks after for all LPs, our advisory board meeting first thing in the morning, and then the full meeting until lunch time. I enjoy our annual meetings – we get to spent a focused chunk of time with our investors.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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Before making a decision to invest, we talked to each member of our advisory board to get their feedback. Their feedback, as one would hope from an advisory board, was direct, clear, and ultimately supportive. With that, we decided to invest and Mike got me to join the board after all.

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When VCs Don’t B t You

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Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran. Fred can ask me for help on anything he wants for the rest of his life and I will always be there for him. The next person on the list of supporters is Scott Maxwell at OpenView Venture Partners.

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Excellent Summary of Berkeley Patent Survey Results

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In 2008 I was invited by Pamela Samuelson , who I met through several Silicon Flatiron events, to be on an advisory board at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. I attended the one meeting that we had and a subsequent symposium and wrote about it in the post Entrepreneurial Companies and the Patent System.