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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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The market was down considerably with public valuations down 53–79% across the four sectors we were reviewing (it is since down even further). ==> Aside, we also have a NEW LA-based partner I’m thrilled to announce: Nick Kim. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately. It is rare to find somebody who matches exactly what I’m looking for in a partner so when you find it you act: Academic rigor (Princeton undergrad, Stanford MBA).

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Unrequited Love

Steve Blank

The VC’s suggested I should spend a day at Onyx Software, an early pioneer in Sales Automation in Seattle. With an unexpected job offer in-hand I spent the plane flight home concluding that our family had already planted roots too deep to move to Seattle. So I called on my friends at Onyx and got on a plane to Seattle.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

… “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Peter Nesbitt, VP of Finance at Teampay , said, “Forecasting is exceptionally challenging in practice, especially as end users drive an era of distributed spending.

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Julie Sandler Joins Pioneer Square Labs As A Managing Director

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We led the financing, and I joined the board to work more closely with Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert to build a long-lasting and enduring startup studio in Seattle. Julie previously was a partner at Madrona Venture Group and is deeply involved in the Seattle startup community.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. Is that when it became big?

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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View More in Seattle ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Seattle Events ›. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner.