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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Techstars Retail, in partnership with Target (Minneapolis). Virgin Media Accelerator (London).

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. He wanted to see all the data himself.

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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. She is the CEO and general partner of the investment firm, street Global. Connect with me on social media. She is a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. My guest today is Alysia Silberg.

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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. My two best partners went off to start Benchmark Capital, very successful to this day, so my firm was going to blow up. I had had a love affair with computers since I was 18 and a freshman physics major. But then, trouble.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Launching a Food Truck Business

Up and Running

Minneapolis , for example, went from 10 food trucks in the busy downtown area to 87 in just four years. Plus, you want to find the right partner to build your truck because prices and workmanship can vary. Both Fellows and Tona use social media to let people know where to find them. Its twin city, St. Go in with a plan.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

His premise was that the delivery method of software – and whether there was actual media involved (i.e., An equal number of non-productive administrative/audit people would be needed on the other end, within businesses who use technology, as well as their technology partners. The TurboTax scenario seems straightforward.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

Joel Gascoigne is the co-founder and CEO of Buffer, a social media management platform. And not to my surprise, this is what lies in our company’s 360-Degrees Happiness Philosophy aimed at our clients, teams and business partners. He’d been reading about her on social media. Photo Credit: Matt Benn. Age was irrelevant.