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

David Teten

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC Is the service scaleable? Advantages.

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Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb

Ben's Blog

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. A prominent design conference was coming to town and the nearby hotels were sold out. They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise.

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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

entrepreMusings

In contrast, small business owners gave Hawaii, Maine and Rhode Island an ā€œF,ā€ while California and Illinois rounded out the bottom five, both earning a ā€œDā€ grade. Need a DJ , interior designer , wedding photographer , or house cleaner ? The top performing cities were Austin, Virginia Beach and Houston.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Design & Production. Tool: Sysomos (Marketwire) URL: Sysomos.com What it does: Like Radian6, Sysomos is designed to help brands ā€œlistenā€ to what people are saying about them online, particularly through social media. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Art/Creative/Design. Art and Designers.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 6: Al Milukas, and Zahra Aljabri and James Faghmous

Steve Blank

The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111, shared how a passion for food, and a personal need for modest but fashionable clothing fueled decisions to begin second careers as startup founders. As a new founder, Al will be calling the perseverance he used to make it in radio. Al Milukas.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

While many travel industry leaders chose to ā€œgo dark,ā€ as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us.

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7 Counterintuitive Rules for Growing Your Business Super-Fast

Reid Hoffman

To succeed, youā€™ll have to violate many of the management ā€œrulesā€ that are designed for efficiency and risk minimization. For example, a great designer might excel at running a one-woman show but is less effective working as part of a larger design team. Blitzscaling a company isnā€™t easy; if it were, everyone would do it.

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