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Book: The Business of Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

I immediately introduced Mahendra to a bunch of Foundry Group LPs, partners, and entrepreneurs. He made progress quickly, and I fondly remember the first edition with the green cover. During a book tour for the 1st Edition of Venture Deals, Jason and I visited the University of Michigan. Mahendra and I kept in touch.

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17 Entrepreneurs Share their Favorite Quotes

Hearpreneur

Being a native of West Michigan, I know a lot about snow! My business partner always points out that “The saying don’t put all of your eggs in one basket assumes you have multiple eggs” This is a great twist on an old saying, and one that casts doubt on some conventional wisdom. Same with agencies or partners.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20

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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

He thought about the plight of his long-time partner and her desire to spend time with her family. we should staple a green card on the certificate of every science graduate who comes to America. We need more high-caliber people in Ohio, Michigan and other mid-Western states. When you grew up with it. It’s a non-partisan issue.

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

Up and Running

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. Imagine Tiger Woods, playing The Masters with them this past weekend. Man, was he pissed!

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. I am one of the original organizers of Frontline Foods and prior to this had spent six years as a general partner at RedPoint Ventures. You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Getty is the fourth green line. This is what it looks like, for our website and our images category leader… You can notice big differences in acquisition strategy right away – from the size of the boxes, and from, for example, seeing that Web Portals and Search is darker green (more growth) for Shutterstock than for us.

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