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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Given where most deals are this has historically meant NYC and San Francisco but over the years we’ve had big successes in Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas and London so we’re open to just finding the best deals. Was it hard to raise the fund? It’s always hard raising money. ” Well, ok, that’s an exaggeration.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

14 years later, our company is 110+ employees strong, housed in TWO buildings in the Chicago suburbs, and we’re continuing to challenge the status quo in the promo products industry, just like we’ve been doing since day one! Fortunately, we don’t work out of my basement anymore! 22- Help people do what I do.

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Pricing experiments you might not know, but can learn from

conversionxl.com

In one of the experiments done by University of Chicago and MIT, a mail order catalog was printed in 3 different versions. Marketing professors at Clark University and The University of Connecticut found that consumers perceive sale prices to be a better value when the price is written in a small font rather than a large, bold typeface.

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