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Meet Our Newest Investment: Properly

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Today, it takes an average of 72 days to sell a home and costs the average seller $15,000. As a result, the unnecessarily complex and manual process one experiences today with traditional real estate brokers and agents can cause selling that home to be an emotional and stressful experience. homeowners.

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

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I think you’ll also see more focus on companies that demonstrate capital efficiently, and investors will encourage founders to be more focused on sound unit economics than growth at all costs. In the last several years, you’ve seen more investors engaging with companies in non-core geographies.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

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It can be lower cost and can either buy more time or accelerate growth. Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. It’s generally got a lower cost compared to equity capital and can help support growth. But the costs are definitely there.

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The Midas List Then and Now

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One of the weaknesses of the Midas list methodology (so I’ve heard) is that it under-emphasizes the impact of one’s cost basis and ownership relative to fund size. I think we’ll see more seed managers on the list going forward, with quite a few more seed funds joining First Round Capital among the firms with multiple Midas List GPs.

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How Covid-19 Has Impacted VC Portfolios

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VC’s also manage multiple funds that get deployed over 10+ years, with new investments happening over the first 2-3 years of a fund’s life. Mid-stage portfolios can be more acutely impacted if many companies have fat cost structures and were investing heavily in growth that is not materializing. Vintage year differences.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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But it was great experience to put yourself in an uncomfortable place to manage 90 Type A personalities. One of the most common jobs out of business school is to be a Product Manager, which manifests the vision of the company in the technology, and you have to be worried about and in charge of every area of the business.

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Pros and Cons of Hiring a Remote Employee

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In part I of this topic, we’ll go through some pros and cons of remote work, and in part II we’ll highlight the types of people you should hire for remote work and how you can manage them effectively. Cost Savings – Businesses save an average of $10,000/year and the remote employee saves approximately $5,000/year. Everyone wins!

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