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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. View More in Detroit ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Detroit Events ›. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

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I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. I hope you will.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.