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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

To a lesser degree, markets like New York are demonstrating more promise in recent years and I expect that to continue. I also think we’ll see some new geographies begin to gain momentum, especially LA, and perhaps several others. At a firm level, I think that getting multiple partners on the list is a great milestone as well.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. For context, the entire S&P 500 is worth about $25.6

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures. tech startups).

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. David Teten, HBS 98, Partner, ff Venture Capital, will discuss his research study on VC portfolio operations, recently featured in Forbes ).

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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. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit).

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

I served on the board of directors until the IPO, and during that time we were able to recruit great firms like Foundry Group, SoftTech VC (now Uncork Capital), Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5: 2: Uber (2009).

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Nairobi Weekend: New Startups in East Africa

ReadWriteStart

It's this side of East Africa this brief report is about and which brought me here, to the mobile revolution I had only read about, and to the IPO48 event with its great bunch of start-ups: Sponsor. Bruno is a European-born entrepreneur currently busy building a new venture, work|i|o , in New York. Also SMS-based.

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