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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. John Maeda, formerly Design Partner, KPCB; formerly President of Rhode Island School of Design. AskAnything.VC

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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

Startup Lessons Learned

People, not just metrics. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. And what I mean by that is, almost every metric, every graph, every number, is a person. Eric Ries : Metrics are people too. Brian Chesky : Metrics are people. And so suddenly, your master are your metrics. Broadly shared prosperity.