Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. The guy has knowledge.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Make sure you are perfectly clear on what skillsets will be most needed for the success of the business, and best fill a hole in your own resume and desired management team.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Startup Magazine recently caught up with teen author Alex Jimenez, 14, of Chicago, USA, a first-time author who launched his new book, “The Big Idea” by Fig Factor Media Publishing. The last and third lesson (golden nugget) that I’ve learned on a daily basis is time management. will be diagnosed with cancer.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. So, a CEO or CTO, would get a much higher stake than an office manager or a graphic designer, as an example. How do you manage your equity split in your company?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Yet many have no real understanding of how to grow, manage and lead a business. Self-leaders are aware of their capabilities and can manage themselves. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Rely on a seasoned property management company that provides the best tenant screening services and is familiar with the qualities and characteristics of high-quality renters. However, having your property management company do tenant screening lets you concentrate on the outcomes rather than the time it takes to obtain the data.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2021

Amos Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, before which he’s helped to build six companies to nearly $1B in exit value. Trevor Boehm was formerly Program Director at Techstars Austin and Impact and then Managing Director at the Techstars Amazon Alexa Next program.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. John Vrionis ( @jvrionis ) is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who focuses primarily on early stage enterprise and consumer technology investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Can you partner with other companies to reach new markets? These include the product itself, strategic alliances, and even, management decisions. Many companies have been brought down not by falling profit or shrinking marketplace but by bad management decisions, often concerning their unremarkable treatment of employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of partner? It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). It felt like there was a wavelength with management and somebody wasn’t on it. Picking a VC is hard. Reputation of firm? FourSquare.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The Happenstance app shares geolocated and little-known mini-podcasts about Chicago! Today The Startup Magazine features a Top 3 Exhibitor winner, Happenstance.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

The second dimension is the internal trust between employees, managers, and top-level management. Consider the following quote from its president, excerpted from The Soft Edge : “I believe in leadership rather than management,” Tom Mendoza of NetApp explained. If something goes wrong, will they do the right thing?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

The second dimension is the internal trust between employees, managers, and top-level management. Consider the following quote from its vice chairman, excerpted from “ The Soft Edge “: “I believe in leadership rather than management,” Tom Mendoza of NetApp explained. Do leaders keep their promises?

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, United Way of Metro Chicago set up a four-month program called the Board Leadership Institute to help business leaders interested in serving on nonprofit boards. Also, the program equips them with the best tools to be of service in the greater Chicago area. Impact of Chicago’s housing crisis.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

As a teenager I moved away from Texas to Chicago to put myself through school and find opportunity outside of South Texas. I worked throughout different areas in Cybersecurity/Identity and Access Management and in 2013 I took the big step and moved to the Boston area. New England has been good to me?—?I

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s Capital Solutions.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. Schonthal found that others in Chicago saw the vision.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Dave’s note: Here comes my favorite “tell-it-like-it-is” CEO, Kim Shepherd, with another of her pieces from her experience managing a completely virtual company with over one hundred employees located through the United States and beyond. . Good Channel partners are hunters with a “protein–rich” diet of connections.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. The Breathing Festival and the ICFB are my first global partnerships but I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2010 when I started my Around Chicago LIVE!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

I found out he had a trip scheduled to Chicago. I sent him a message telling him I’d be in Chicago on such-and-such dates. I technically WOULD be in Chicago. They called the partner in America responsible for the project, Grieg Coppe, put him on the phone and he said, “what the hell are you doing there?” I wasn’t lying?—?I

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The Next Web

JULY 3, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a growth consulting, advisory and executive staffing firm based in Chicago. I recently had the pleasure of sitting on an investor panel with Joe Dwyer, a partner at Founder Equity Fund and good colleague of mine.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. Headquarters: Chicago, IL. But even in Boston & Chicago it remains above $20. Groupon, Inc. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011.

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

. “We are pleased to partner with them on VCAP©, which will provide women and diverse entrepreneurs with access to capital essential to innovation and job creation.” VCAP© finalists will also be invited to present at Marathon’s 7th Annual DealMakers’ Summit July 23rd and 24th at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

Their company handlse large and small insurance losses and works closely with insurance adjusters, managers, building owners, developers, homeowners and renters. . The concept was novel and no one yet had brought this concept to Chicago. He invited me on board as a junior partner. I was intrigued. Problem solved!

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2018

As an entrepreneur you are always on the go and I was frustrated by the lack of healthy food options in Chicago. We decided to partner and together we launched the brick and mortar version of my catering company, Square Roots Kitchen. While it’s always important to trust those around you, it’s essential to trust your partner.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a growth consulting, advisory and executive staffing firm based in Chicago. As I have been doing startup consulting at Red Rocket, I have also had many executive conversations with several big companies.

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The Next Web

APRIL 16, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. It is important you can get along with your new partners, This story continues at The Next Web. Typically, entrepreneurs start their own business.

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The Next Web

MARCH 16, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. This really is not a simple question to answer. There are so many nuances that go into assessing the right answer: What is going on with the economy? Are you B2B or B2C?

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

The 21 year old Chicago Bull rookie Michael Jordan, starting his career with no professional resume or accomplishments, or his 40 year Washington Wizards version, possessive of 6 NBA Finals MVPs, over 30,000 points scored, and universally regarded as the greatest player in basketball history?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2019

I saw this challenge outlined well in a new book, “ Learning to Lead ,” by Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna and self-made business leader, who rose from the poor side of the tracks in south Chicago to lead several large businesses, and ultimately serve on the President’s Management Advisory Board for several years.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A friend calls me up from: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, wherever and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Any hiring manager at a company who has any operational experience and common sense will never want to hire somebody remotely anyways. Fair enough.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Research says that those who engage in hobbies are likely to be better problem solvers (San Francisco State University) and that most managers (82%) aren’t very good at leading people (Gallup). Sometimes being a leader means stripping away management practices and just being human. by Adam Hirsen, CEO and Co-founder of UPshow.

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The Next Web

MAY 18, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. I was lucky enough to be involved with two startups that were both sold to $1BN revenue businesses: iExplore was sold to TUI Travel, and MediaRecall was sold to Deluxe.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley. 23: Chicago, IL?—?

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Transformify

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We found an extreme talent in Adeel Ahmad who worked between Lahore, Pakistan and Chicago, Illinois at the time. The second opportunity that presented itself was when Bertram Lyons, now Partner and Senior Consultant at AVP, reached out because he was in the position of moving from Washington D.C.

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