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Supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund

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The fund is managed by university students participating in HBCUvc’s Fellowship programs. Primary learnings for the fellows include: Originating investment opportunities Conducting due diligence Syndicating transactions Executing transactions Supporting founders and portfolio companies.

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In WordPress Hosting Hell? Pantheon Now Supports WordPress

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You may noticed from prior posts that we’ve had a difficult time at Foundry Group managing our growing portfolio of WordPress sites. You would think that by now, managing websites would be a solved problem, but that’s just not true. In our portfolio of startup companies, following is how websites usually get managed.

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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

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Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now.

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JumpCloud – Jump to the Next Level of DevOps

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After being involved in hundreds of technology companies, we know that young and fast growing technology companies have little time to devote to the details of managing their server infrastructure. Think of JumpCloud as taking over server maintenance, management, monitoring, and security once the provisioning tools have done their thing.

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Managing New User Satisfaction On A Daily Basis

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We have many rapidly growing SaaS companies in our portfolio. The post Managing New User Satisfaction On A Daily Basis appeared first on Feld Thoughts. 2017 is the year for ICDC in my world.

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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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Until very recently, setting up HTTPS meant purchasing and managing certificates and configuring them correctly to work with your web server. Certificate management had to become cheap and easy. Even a few years ago I would have been skeptical this would be possible. We have Let’s Encrypt to thank for that. This is happening now.

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