YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

The global financial crisis served as a wake-up call to investors: few investments are immune to panicked selling activity. Of course, they can fall too as was the case during in global financial crisis. You may also find that the rising costs of HOA dues sometimes assume the proportions of a mortgage payment. Do your homework.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. Your customers and your investors like partners? And it was amazing how global travel was halted. 37:30) Compassion in layoffs. (39:37)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

I came up with the name Excel Global Partners for my corporate consulting firm because of the vision I had for the company. Global – I wanted my company to have a global reach. Partners – I didn’t want my company to simply work for its clients, I wanted it to work with its clients. Nowlin, Excel Global Partners !

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud).

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

In spite of all the ink that journalists, analysts, and pundits have spilled on Uber over the years, no mainstream article has focused on what I consider to be the most elegant feature of this now ubiquitous, high growth global service — no driver-partner is ever told where or when to work.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different.

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