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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. John Maeda, formerly Design Partner, KPCB; formerly President of Rhode Island School of Design. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Advantages.

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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

I went to Rhode Island School of Design. But I am, in aggregate, really proud, not just of the decisions we made, but of how everyone acted. Let me just tell you a little bit of a background. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training. I'm not a business person. I'm a designer.