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

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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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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Meet Our New General Partner, Jeff Jordan

Ben's Blog

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Today I’m delighted to announce that legendary Internet industry CEO and executive Jeff Jordan has joined Andreessen Horowitz as our fifth General Partner. I say “legendary&# for two reasons.

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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

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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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