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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant. You might hire a really amazing designer, and perhaps even charge companies for their service for cost recovery purposes. In-house, brand-name guru. Is the service scaleable? Advantages. Disadvantages.

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How to Choose a Business Location

Up and Running

In this case, those things fit the bill and it was down to what’s in a name, or rather, a street name. An interior designer was hired to make the space shine. Ultimately, they decided on a location in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, located right off the 95 and on every major bus route.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.” And so my basic idea is that, I think this is probably because of my background as a designer, I like to take a very systematic approach. We’ve kind of designed the kind of growth that we want. And I said, “Why?”

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Domain Name/Basic Site. Web Design/Tech Services. Rhode Island. Rhode Island. Social Services.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.” And so my basic idea is that, I think this is probably because of my background as a designer, I like to take a very systematic approach. We’ve kind of designed the kind of growth that we want. And I said, “Why?”

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

19:36) Brian on his background as a RISD-trained industrial designer. (20:32) 19:36) Brian on his background as a RISD-trained industrial designer. (20:32) And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. I'm a designer. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. 37:30) Compassion in layoffs. (39:37)

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: YANA

crowdSPRING Blog

Wayne posted a project on crowdSPRING looking for YANA t-shirt designs and loved them so much he awarded an extra creative making that six winners! How did you get things designed before crowdSPRING? Since YANA is a start-up, we never needed design work prior to our first project with crowdSPRING.