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Details of Upfront Ventures New $400 Million Fund

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And Stuart Lander is also a partner and runs all operations and platform teams. We’ve had billion dollar exists in Chicago, Baltimore, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles an well as enormous winners also in New York and Las Vegas. And anybody who works with us of course knows Kerry Bennett who runs marketing and our CFO Dana Kibler.

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Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder

blog.launchbit.com

The reason for the differentiation is that we hypothesized those who were already working full-time on their own idea would be much harder to "poach" away. Be able to talk about your competitors products and differentiate your product. Your role needs to be operational. 1 = Not Important and 5 = Very Important. Apr 15, 2011.