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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). Install artwork of landscape paintings featuring green vegetation, water, and animal life , all from a view from the high ground (which is innately appealing aesthetics). mixed nuts, unsalted.

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The Gender Issue Part II

thebarefootvc

That’s why I sat on the board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs in 1999 in Silicon Valley when I started my venture career, and continue to support women entrepreneurs through Astia , Girls in Tech and a host of other organizations.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications.