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Our New Theme – Arts, Crafts, Design, and Marriage

Feld Thoughts

We’ve just closed a financing in Borrowed & Blue and Jason joined the board. Given that Jason is also on the board of Craftsy and Havenly , I’m going to bring up the idea with my partners today that we create and design a new theme around arts and marriage. See what I did there?

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. And brining in new general partners – like Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman – has certainly helped refine the vision of the firm by challenging some of our accepted wisdom. That’s healthy. Great leaders are doers.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. 9- Be the #1 Small Giant in Hawaii. You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. The biggest one?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. the previous year. Comcast Corp., Legal Services.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing.

Altgate

"  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.   Not surprisingly, WSGR Partner Yokum Taku, who I've previously written about , is the key co-conspirator behind making this tool public.    Building that must have been crazy. . 

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Millennial CEO Disrupts Bottled Water Industry

Hearpreneur

I worked as a public television editor while in highschool, and in college worked two different jobs in finance while I started to develop Waiakea. When live in Hawaii and you don’t stay at a resort, you can’t help but ignore the unemployment and poverty in some areas that is directly relevant to education.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

I am not just a Finance or a Marketing employee: as an entrepreneur, I have a full understanding of my business’ dynamics, both strategic and operational. Our company is judged daily by our clients, employees, vendors, lenders, investors and business partners. Besides, I really like being able to see the whole picture.