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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. I am one of the original organizers of Frontline Foods and prior to this had spent six years as a general partner at RedPoint Ventures. And of course, Ryan jumped right to it.

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Blood In The Streets

Feld Thoughts

I was on vacation for a week in Slovenia celebrating my partner Seth’s 40th birthday. Seth is a huge cyclist so his wife Greeley gave him a wonderful present of a week bike trip with seven of his cycling buddies and his three partners. By this point the fog had completely cleared and I knew what had happened.

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Why Great Leadership Starts With Open Hearted Conversations

Duct Tape Marketing

So my business partner and I are practitioners, we're executive coaches. So you might, uh, not be surprised that right now with everyone starting to go back to the office and COVID feels like it's mostly over, everybody wants to have a team offsite. You did some pretty exhaustive research to come to the conclusions you came to.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Kind of the model that Game Fit sites have where you partner up with somebody and you support each other as you try and do one more lap or push up. We actually, one of our partners is a fluent speaker of Spanish, which is one of the reasons we brought him on. I think those are your natural allies and those are your natural alliances.

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Talking AI with AI

Reid Hoffman

These last reflect a set of predictions that my partner Saam Motamedi and I wrote last year arguing that within 5 years every profession will have an equivalent of the Microsoft developer product Co-pilot. Where the AI — in this case you — provide creative, interesting, and elucidating content like I hope we are right now.

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How To Connect, Converse, And Convert Through Social Media Listening

Duct Tape Marketing

So if I, if we, you know, try those quote posts and we put those out and we label it as, you know, cliche, but we see that we're getting the engagement and the conversation, right. I want to converse mm-hmm because we have to connect. Then we can converse. I would let the voice of the customer tell me.