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Strengthening Community Ties: How Nonprofit Leaders Can Better Approach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Board Effect

As the details of these tragedies unfolded, the incidents opened up a national conversation about the need to take a serious look at the issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion within every organization and walk of life. Moving Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Research Uncovers Disparities in Nonprofit Leadership.

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

I served on the board of directors until the IPO, and during that time we were able to recruit great firms like Foundry Group, SoftTech VC (now Uncork Capital), Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. 2: Uber (2009). 6: Outreach (2011).

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Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA

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Announcing our investment in Cap Hill Brands, a next-gen CPG company

Version One Ventures

We’re excited to announce our investment in Cap Hill Brands , a Seattle startup with the mission to build a next-generation CPG company by acquiring and operating digitally-native consumer brands. However, there hasn’t been much liquidity in the market for these types of businesses. We’re excited to be a part of the journey!

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The VC Industry Norms Which Changed Over The Past Decade

Haystack

To be fair, not all of them held this view and many of them were investing nationally earlier, but as we flip over to 2020, there is a general acceptance among Bay Area VC partnerships that they need to be able to invest across the country, not just NYC and LA or Seattle. Acceptance that firms and partners need to actively market themselves.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. 4mm in Series A.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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