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Avalon Ventures Raises A New $200 Million Fund And Gets A New Website

Feld Thoughts

I’ve gotten to know several of Rich’s partners over the past few years and recently had a wonderful Do More Faster book tour dinner hosted at Avalon’s San Diego office by Kevin Kinsella (a fellow MIT-grad turned VC.). In conjunction with their financing, Avalon just rolled out a new website designed by Slice of Lime.

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Entrepreneur Fills a Market Void by Building Female-Focused Co-Working Spaces

Hearpreneur

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. I was turned on to the concept of coworking in 2010, when I hosted a networking event, for an organization I was leading, at San Diego’s first coworking space, the Hive Haus.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”. My Skype address is bradfeld.

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5 Tips for Private Practice Optometrists to Grow Profits This Year

Mike Michalowicz

His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. To contact Nancy, email nancy@eyecarepro.net. These are outdated ways to manage your business finances and won’t help you maximize profits. Take that opportunity to ask for online reviews and referrals. . Learn more here: [link].

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. You can register here. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

Feld Thoughts

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. But then Mike called me about some more stuff a week later.

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30 Entrepreneur Share Their Goals for 2020

Hearpreneur

A big part of this growth is with video marketing and pruning my email list to focus only on my most engaged subscribers. My Facebook community of over 12,000 mom bosses need help with their growth and my videos and emails help them succeed. I also plan on opening a new location for our agency in San Diego, by April 2020.