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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. Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?

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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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9 Common Things that Stunt Business Growth (and What to Do about Them)

ConversionXL

Before we get to that though, I asked my LinkedIn connections about the #1 thing holding back their companies. It’s clear from the 80+ answers that many things hold companies back, so consider these nine a starting point in your quest to improve your business. (As Look at your management team as well.

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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

As Garry Tan observes , the GitHub outcome demonstrates the true power of building relevant products for developers. and with major cash-rich buyers in the ecosystem, one has to wonder what this does to the value of Atlassian, which manages BitBucket. And yesterday, another feather in the cap — GitHub.

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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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California’s New Privacy Act Puts the Crunch on Small Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Consumers should feel better about their privacy and the stringent rules that hold companies responsible for protecting their personal information. And most of the big tech enterprise companies should be fine, too. Small businesses often buy sales leads from data brokers to help sell their products and services.