David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 23, 2014

Proprietary selection (aka curation) – e.g. companies that build their brand and community around their product selection like Nastygal and Modcloth. Andy Dunn from Bonobos wrote yesterday about the dominance of Amazon in what he calls ecommerce 1.0 Most important though is that the product or service is amazing at some level.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

I can’t say that Covid-19 has made me rethink the personal utility of the really big conferences (I don’t attend many), but it does make me miss the curation of smaller groups. There’s just so much community and learning-by-osmosis (or serendipity) that comes from being together. I do miss being near my business partner Satya.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Increase your premium pricing Referrals also allow you to diversify your pricing portfolio and charge a premium for your product or service. I like to group client referrals into four main types; direct, implied, tangible and community. Start by identifying key players and recruiting them for your partner network.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures. M&A – Acquisitions.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. The AWS APN Global Startup Program – for startup AWS Partner Network (APN) select and advanced technology partners looking to grow their products on AWS. Some of the past participants in the AWS Builder Space program in Israel (Disclosure: Novos is a Remagine Ventures portfolio company).

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

And we all have some Irish ancestors so we settled on Fior Partners. We like to think we’re our clients true partners… Thanks to Dana Sullivan Kilroy, Fior Partners ! #5- While many options hit the cutting room floor, we landed with Voleo, a phonetic spelling of VOting portfoLIO. Photo Credit: Lance Beaudry.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

In late 2011, Summit rallied the community to raise nearly $1 million to create a marine reserve the size of Manhattan in the island chain that hosted Summit at Sea. They helped the health technology company Basis raise its Series A through the Summit community. But once they saw Eden, Utah the decision to move solidified quickly.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2022

Across the V1 portfolio, our teams have been accomplishing incredible things during an unprecedented time. We announced our investment in Gadze Finance and welcomed Mike Silagadze and Andrew McGrath (from Top Hat) back to the portfolio. Booster is partnering with Renewable Energy Group to bring renewable fuels directly to fleets.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

This positions them uniquely to leverage not just their archives, but also their new content on an ongoing basis to partner in developing more contextually aware and culturally sensitive AI models. This not only fosters community but also reinstates the media’s role as a public square for democracy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

He’s the co-founder and CEO of the Community Company. And so, what connectors are are natural and authentic people who truly are looking to create valuable, deep relationships, and they do so by putting communities of great and amazing people around them. Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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