ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

… “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Further, we support this with weekly flash reports that focus on key operating metrics of the company.”. ThedaCare also introduced a daily financial management tool for department managers.

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Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week.

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Programming Sacramento San Francisco Founder 156

View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Our program goes back to basics in the most important, effective, and meaningful ways : weekly one-on-one time with partners, hands-on mentorship from experienced advisors, small and selective cohort sizes, and zero demo days or distracting demo day prep involved. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts .

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San Diego San Francisco Alabama Valuation 156

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 12, 2021

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. The company is led by two of the best e-commerce operators and entrepreneurs we know, Kevin Saliba and Jason LeeKeenan.

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Private Equity Seattle Equity Acquisition 87

Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

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. The AUM of many VC funds has increased dramatically.

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Seattle Seed Stage Deal Flow Vertical 130

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Upcoming Events. Disrupt NY 2013.

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SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

This is especially true for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. When the CEO prioritized either distributed or remote work and makes it part of the wiring of how the company operates, it’s effective. When it’s an afterthought, a lifestyle choice, or a reaction to something, it fails.

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Silicon Valley Seattle Russia Denver 81

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella is co-founder and managing partner of Tech Wildcatters, a Dallas-based seed accelerator. Gabriella is co-founder and managing partner of Tech Wildcatters, a Dallas-based seed accelerator.

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Dallas Intellectual Property Fort Worth Japan 60

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With Angela’s promotion to General Partner , we now have investment partners located in both the U.S. Our particular focus is in San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto/Waterloo , Seattle, and NYC. Having run our own companies, we try to pass on as much of our operations knowledge as possible. Acknowledgements and gratitude.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley North America San Francisco LP 127

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. Enter Box. They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation.

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IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But then subsequently, the CTO isresponsible for actually integrating and running the technology, i.e. the roleof the ‘operations manager.’ ThisCTO’s responsibilities often include advanced technology, competitive analysis,technology assessment, prototyping lab, partnering, planning, and architecturestandards.

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CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

I had them at my partners’ meeting the next Monday. Tells me she wants to do operational stuff so she joins a small team of people running City Search. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. As are her partners. Turns out Punky was a childhood hero for Tasha. That’s cute.

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Haiti San Francisco Startup Turkey 398

Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2019

With Galaxy, Outreach is more deeply integrating their partners, so users can handle all of their sales actions in a single workflow within Outreach. Manny Medina , cofounder and CEO of Outreach , was a winner of a 2019 Executive Excellence award , which recognizes leaders in Seattle-based companies. Clio was (once again!)

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Portfolio OTC Artificial Inteligence Seattle 100

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

What makes my particular business operation unique is that we market, tailor, and provide our clinical counseling and treatment services to traditionally over-looked segments of the wider community that typically do not access and/or obtain counseling and treatment services; specifically, many immigrant and newer immigrant populations.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 92

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. It's a genuine win-win: people need food, and we have massive unemployment at the same time.

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San Francisco Government Technical Review Community 60

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

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Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

As is our style, we participated, but we’re excited to have a new partner to join us, Madrona, and Petco in this fast growing adventure. They understood the different dimensions of the business and were laser focused on drivers of supply and demand in each market they operated. Some get it; many don’t.

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Seattle Metrics Cofounder Finance 149

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Over the years, we have spent a lot of time in four key geographies: Toronto (nine investments), San Francisco (15 investments), New York City (five investments), and Seattle (four investments). As former operators, we welcome the opportunity to get our hands dirty with strategy, hiring, data, and more.

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San Francisco New York City Seed Stage Seattle 113

www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Lab manages the shared operational needs of its member organizations, allowing them to better focus on mission and execution. When members see connections, they often partner with one another, backstopping and expanding each other’s capabilities and skills or forming entirely new ventures.

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Term Sheet Liquidation Preference Vesting San Diego 40

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

by Diane Longmoor, Director of User Experience and a Partner at Fell Swoop. But oftentimes we need to operate within constraints, which create better design. Diane Longmoor is the Director of User Experience for Fell Swoop – a digital design firm in Seattle. There’s a time for blue-sky ideation. 6: How much time is required?

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Seattle Design Early Stage Social Media 138

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The studio’s design talent boasts some famous names among the list of partners, including Paula Scher, Michael Beirut, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Harry Pearce, and many more. In its 12 years of operation, the company has worked for some of the biggest companies online, including Google, Disney, Slack, Medium, and more.

San Francisco 86

San Francisco Design New York City New York 86

Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   Too few boards meet, confer and operate as a working unit without the CEO.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley SEC 31

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). people looking to move to Austin). People are voting with their feet.).

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

This funding is intended to help public health authorities cover the initial cost of labor and supplies while international agencies and national governments appropriate the resources necessary to fund ongoing operations.”. In April, when it announced an additional $150 million commitment, it explained that it would also leverage its $2.5

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Non-Compete China Global Government 62

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company.

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Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

And gaming companies like EA, Ubisoft, Bioware, and Capcom are either based out of Canada or have large operations in the country. The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast.

Silicon Valley 83

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 83

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. The trick worked and the hyper-sophisticated AC system hummed into operation, but he was still challenged. or Seattle. Parley-vous "A-list"?). I can relate to that.

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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. When I used to travel to Los Angeles and Seattle on business I would use a rental car. New Use Cases. Today I only Uber.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. And we think its better if startups operate out of their ownpremises, however crappy, than the offices of their investors. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

And gaming companies like EA, Ubisoft, Bioware, and Capcom are either based out of Canada or have large operations in the country. The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 48

Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2013

A lot of the ways I was operating my business was based off what I saw indie rock artists doing from a do-it-yourself perspective. Whether it be somebody coming back to extend a hand, or people saying, “I know that this dude is a good dude and he operates in an unselfish fashion, so I want to extend another business opportunity to him.”.

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Portland Oregon Seattle Management 130

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. Upfront’s Base As you probably know we are based in Santa Monica and as my partner Greg Bettinelli coined, we’re #LongLA. We’ll invest in about 15 new companies every year or just over 2 per partner.

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Los Angeles Las Vegas Venture Capital San Francisco 287

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road. in terms of time spent on the sites.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318