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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building? Greg is part of our executive leadership team and already helps run the firm.

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill — who is a leader, no doubt about it — decided to declare war on “they.”

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill – who is a leader, no doubt about it – decided to declare war on “they.”

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

When he did manage to start his own business, it was short-lived and failed. After former CEO Steve Jobs departed the business in 1985, Apple entered a ten-year downward spiral as competitors' lower-priced products notably Microsoft Windows, dominated the personal computer market. Photo Credit: Paul Bowley. He lost almost everything.

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How Finding Your Purpose Can Build Your Business

YoungUpstarts

By implementing this objective through your company’s offering, you can add value to the community and establish the service your company provides the public. My company is an intellectual property holding company, but it ultimately aims to accelerate and regulate the utilization of regenerative technology.

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I‘ve founded and run marketing agencies for 20 years, I’m running one now, and yet I hate the agency industry. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

Jeff Hilimire

There are real reasons that agencies are difficult companies to run. When you’re building your own product, you have a great deal more freedom to make choices on how you run your business. I sold one of my companies (Engauge) to a holding company, and the result was quite frankly disastrous.