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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. Please help me welcome Kara into her role as Co-Managing Partner.

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Can your employees recruit from a customer or supplier?

Berkonomics

One of your employees is approached by an employee of a customer or of a supplier, stating that “It sure would be great to work in your company.” The rule should be one that includes only one “out”: if a person resigns from the position with the stake-holding company, then you will be happy to talk about a position.

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9 Common Things that Stunt Business Growth (and What to Do about Them)

ConversionXL

Before we get to that though, I asked my LinkedIn connections about the #1 thing holding back their companies. It’s clear from the 80+ answers that many things hold companies back, so consider these nine a starting point in your quest to improve your business. (As So, what can companies do about it?

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

With nearly 30M users, over 85M code repositories, and marquee technology customers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, among others, GitHub’s ubiquity made it invaluable. and with major cash-rich buyers in the ecosystem, one has to wonder what this does to the value of Atlassian, which manages BitBucket.

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26 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

I am a huge fan of Charlie Munger, who is the Vice Chairman of the famed holding company Berkshire Hathaway. Not only did he manage to (co)found a superb company and product, he also built an amazing company culture and one of the best blogs in the business. Thanks to Rick Maningas, Best Choice House Buyers LLC !

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. When he did manage to start his own business, it was short-lived and failed. And it’s a definite win-win for the customers and the manufacturer. Photo Credit: Paul Bowley.