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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

And we chose to locate ourselves 3 blocks East of The Third Street Promenade where much new development is taking place. 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. We want a place that feels approachable – not stuffy. So what changed?

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website. No hassles. No regrets.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3 billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. She is the primary inventor of a modular centrifuge that operates with or without electricity.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

as the the.com was already being used by an app developer in the US. The two businesses that operate within our corporation are Best in Class Education and Middle School Dances, a business I started with my son to provide social activities for the kids in our local area when we noticed a gap in the market.

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[Exercise] Create A Bulletproof Mission Plan

YoungUpstarts

Armed with your selected high-value target(s), use the PROP system (Priorities, Realities, Options, and Path) to develop at least three courses of action and choose one clear path forward. This is your path, along which you will develop your plan for hitting each target on the way to overall mission success. Priorities.

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Will Millennials Change Manufacturing?

Duct Tape Marketing

In a research study conducted by IndustryWeek earlier this year and sponsored by Emerson, manufacturing respondents said the industrial IoT will improve operations through real-time access to information and more tightly connected supply chains, but they pointed to personnel as the most important factor for success. Open to Change.