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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

Both Sides of the Table

And there’s none that makes me happier than to announce that Jordan Hudson has been promoted to a Principal at Upfront Ventures. Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Happy official New Year’s, all. Deal screening.

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Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb

Ben's Blog

This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. The website is clean and very intuitive—not surprising, I guess, when two of the founders are designers. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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A Clarification With Respect to Yahoo

Ben's Blog

From Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz: Over the last several weeks, there have been erroneous reports in the press that my partner Jeff Jordan and/or I might become an operating executive of Yahoo in some capacity.

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

In conversation with a16z managing partner Jeff Jordan (and former CEO of OpenTable and former GM of eBay among other things) — so, from all sides of investing, operating, life — Annie shares tips for decision makers of all kinds making decisions under uncertainty… really, all of us. How do you decide? <Yep.>

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

Up and Running

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. The more complex the operating structure of a business , the more information and time required.”. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing. Watch your finances.

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