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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. So they will have allocations to US public equities, international public equities, emerging market public equities, real estate, mining, minerals and so forth.

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Nonprofit Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Key Issues for Today

Board Effect

People generally like to be served by people much like themselves, which is the primary reason for all nonprofits to focus heavily on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Are Nonprofits Making Progress in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a new topic for nonprofit organizations.

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Wonderist Agency Acquires Merger Labs

YoungUpstarts

Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Galvez, a major player in private equity and investment banking, saw the need for marketing services geared toward these sectors.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

They add mentors and additional services and some offer free space in exchange for equity. Accelerators take teams with fairly focused ideas and offer a formal 3-4 month program of tutoring/mentoring with seed funding in exchange for equity. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. It has density,” he said.

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

fi.co

In a post on his blog , Dave Parker, Co-Founder and CEO of Bundled.com and Director of the Seattle Founder Institute , explains why spiltting equity 50/50 amongst co-founders is almost never the right answer, because each co-founder will have their own expectations, commitment, and goals regarding the startup. Johannesburg. Kuala Lumpur.

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Meet EvoNexus - the Country's Only Free Startup Incubator

ReadWriteStart

EvoNexus (which does sound kind of like a U2 album), is a project of San Diego tech industry association CommNexus , which launched the incubator in 2009 to stimulate the growth of new high-tech companies in the area. But unlike other incubators, those entrepreneurs pay no fees and give up no equity. “We Pro bono as in free.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners.