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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

By excising just the tumor and leaving the rest of the organ, surgeons can help patients reduce the risk of early mortality, reduce patient complications, reduce costs of healthcare, and reduce the backlogged demand for kidney donations. To date, VCAP© has received 149 applicants, of which 15 companies made round one, and 6 made round two.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

By excising just the tumor and leaving the rest of the organ, surgeons can help patients reduce the risk of early mortality, reduce patient complications, reduce costs of healthcare, and reduce the backlogged demand for kidney donations. To date, VCAP© has received 149 applicants, of which 15 companies made round one, and 6 made round two.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. Market value doesn't equal the sum of sweat equity invested by you and your partners.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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Well, for starters, I was born in Philadelphia, so I’m a lifelong Eagles fan. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. ” Well, I really wanted to be a general partner but there weren’t a lot of general partner openings.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures. We chose the word “upfront” to represent our culture.

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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

David Teten

At the American Society for Cell Biology Conference last month in Philadelphia, they described their approach as emulating venture capital by maximizing investigator productivity and investing in a portfolio of strong investigators. Nguyen observes that the NIH is taking note of some issues with misallocation of funding incentives.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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