Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

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. Word here is that GitHub will be afforded a similar situation within Microsoft, operating as a wholly-owned company yet still retaining its structure.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2016

If you dream of operating your own luxury day spa, now may be the perfect time to get started. Depending on the location of your spa, you may also want to consider offering services designed to appeal to corporate clients looking for fun ways to hold company events. Consider your operating hours.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2020

And “them” = the main client contacts, their bosses, their bosses bosses, their board of directors (everybody has an opinion on marketing and advertising), and ultimately and most importantly of course, their customers. I sold one of my companies (Engauge) to a holding company, and the result was quite frankly disastrous.

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Marketing Georgia Holding Company Advertising 36

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

These 15 famous companies did just that, all changing in dramatic ways to become totally different than their former selves. Multinational conglomerate holding company Berkshire Hathaway is best known for its control investor, Warren Buffett, who has grown the company by investing not just in stocks, but in entire companies.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 40

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings? How Customers evaluate your product | StartupCFO – [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link].

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