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

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View More in Seattle ›. Seattle Events ›. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walker

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. Enter Box. They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation.

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High-performance culture: MJ Vigil on hiring diverse talent in an increasingly multicultural world

Transformify

The Portland native is happiest when spending time with family, which includes her Seattle public school teacher husband, her adult son and their sweet cat Alice. There is an aging workforce in the insurance industry; we have a need to hire both insurance specialists and those in non-insurance roles like IT, Marketing, Finance and HR.

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