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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. While all three of our most recent investments built on this foundational idea still remain stealthy, everyone utilizes connected technology to uniquely deliver a service or bundled product. Recent Investment Themes.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

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The Kudzu, and other invasive species, are disruptive technologies — the ecosystem it was introduced into didn’t stand a chance against it, because they never had a chance to co-evolve against it- and so it runs rampant. million acres of land. Since the tap-summon is a “pre-arrangement”, no laws have been broken.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. What Michelle wanted to get out of it was to get experience pitching to VCs and to build a better relationship with Prof. Tom Eisenmann.

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Introducing Traction, the NextView Podcast: Creative Ways Startups Find Results Against the Odds

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He discusses what it was like pioneering virality- and social media-based products before that was even a thing, and how the climate and technology of Silicon Valley back then was radically different than today.

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