Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A few thing as we move into Week 2 of my book tour: I'm now in Los Angeles and San Francisco to promote The Startup Way. If this week is anything like the last, attendees are in for great events.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2020

When Uber coordinated its first ride in San Francisco in 2010, it changed the transportation game. If your community attracts top talent and businesses, then your company’s resources, networking opportunities, and growth partners all improve. Change is unavoidable in business.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2012

Many of Gnip ‘s customers and partners are in the bay area and they have decided to begin adding people in San Francisco to better support those clients. They’ve just posted their first position in San Francisco to help manage and grow existing customers.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

My partner Ryan is going to the NewCo Shift Forum while I’m theoretically covering SaaStr (and doing a brief speaking bit tomorrow there and then at the Strictly VC event.) The post Soggy In San Francisco appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

by Karen Hayward, Chief Outsiders Managing Partner and CMO, and author of “ Stop Random Acts of Marketing: Deliberate & Practical Growth Strategies for Mid-Market CEOs “ Middle market companies are ambitious to grow, and they need the right marketing strategy that can guide the whole enterprise to new heights.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2018

They spend a lot of time, effort and resources on developing a business plan, and even more time and effort on raising capital, finding the right people and developing strategic partners. Millias is the managing partner and co-founder of OUM & Co. Warren Chung is a partner in the San Francisco office of OUM & Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

Successful companies constantly reinvent and reimagine using 360 triangulation and partner workshops, empowering employee teams, and encouraging attention to detail. Author of “ Customer-Driven Disruption: Five Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve ” Suman Sarkar is a partner with Three S Consulting, located in San Francisco.

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Technical Review Technology Customer Qatar 145

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Transportation partners play an enormous role in the supply chain as they bring products into distribution centers and sometimes directly to customers. Develop Relationships with Supply Chain Partners. Develop relationships with each of your supply chain partners and make communication a top priority.

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Management Forecast Los Angeles San Francisco 145

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. So, Lenore started something called the SF New Deal.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s the first big gathering of the year, a small sibling to the much larger Game Development Conference (aka GDC) taking place in San Francisco in March. First and foremost, PGC it’s a meeting palooza – I received over 40 requests for meetings, mainly from game studios all over Europe.

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Generative AI San Francisco Technical Review Europe 104

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Following is a guest post from Cyril about the program along with a link to their Demo Day event in San Francisco on June 18th. The HAXLR8R team will hit San Francisco on June 18th for their Demo Day , which will be hosted at Autodesk on Embarcadero.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. You won’t regret it.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. Do you want to help out?”

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San Francisco Boston Venture Capital Angel Investor 159

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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San Francisco Jordan Los Angeles Technical Review 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. And by my Instagram photo or Tweets he must have realized I was in San Francisco and would need to get to Mountain View (an hour away) to speak.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

has announced that it is partnering search giant Google to support the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States and around the world. Media and event company Women 2.0

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San Francisco San Diego Partner Mexico 182

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. One of the world's leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries, founder space was ranked number one, the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and entrepreneur magazines.

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San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. We lived together in a crappy apartment in San Francisco and commuted together from SF down to the peninsula every day. We were effectively together 24/7.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

While the IT team is a crucial partner in the innovation process, if you don’t create an organizational culture that understands how and is receptive to partnering with IT on change efforts, you won’t see the impact you are hoping for. It’s similar with private sector or non-profit partners. 6 in San Francisco.

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Government Lean Startup San Francisco 165

ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

Companies right now are looking for one partner to handle all of their in-office food, snacking, and beverage needs, and now more than ever, HUNGRY is that complete partner for them.”. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company. Last July, we met a young pig named Jessie at a farm in Marin, just north of San Francisco. In May, we accepted IndieBio’s offer to join their life sciences accelerator, so we moved to San Francisco, where we’re still based.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The two Data Collective managing partners, who are currently raising fund number two, tell me that the timing is right for a fund committed exclusively to Big Data companies, as the barriers to entry in launching these sorts of startups are only getting lower. The partners are currently in the middle of successfully raising their second fund.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors. But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Today, Uber already works dramatically well in many suburban areas outside of San Francisco with pick up times in less than 10 minutes. Once again, Uber started in San Francisco proper.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This San Francisco-based company operates sustainably. He partners with Pump Aid to donate clean, fresh water to people in Malawi. This is a crowdsourcing company based in San Francisco. This is another company based in San Francisco. Harmless Harvest. Waiakea Water was founded in 2012 by Ryan Emmons.

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San Francisco Malawi Harvest Green 127

View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I became certified as a professional coach through the Hudson Institute of Coaching to be a more mindful and effective partner on a founder’s journey. Consistent with how they approach the founders they back, they are trusted, high integrity, humble, no BS, and collaborative partners who prioritize the right things with each other too.

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North America San Francisco Cap Table Cofounder 156

Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2010

More jobs – this time in San Francisco. We recently invested in Triggit – my partner Seth blogged about our investment and the rise of real time bidding platforms and we put up a post about Triggit on the Foundry Group blog.

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San Francisco Engineer Distribution Global 97

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

We pitch to potential partners, vendors, publishers, conferences, employees, and even lawyers. Dont keep banging your head against the wall - if you cant convince your potential partners that your startup is printing money, try to figure out why. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Experiment with different narratives.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 128

SiliconHills

APRIL 10, 2020

The company, founded in 2010, is based in San Francisco but has a large presence and office in Austin. Austin-based Elsewhere Partners led the financing round. Airbrake, which makes software that tracks errors in web apps, announced this week it has raised $11 million in funding. Airbrake has an interesting history.

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San Francisco Austin Finance Web 118

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. and the redesign of TED.com.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Some of the mentors are based in Boulder, but many are not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

” This in response to his 5,500 2-bed penthouse in San Francisco where his construction budget alone was $9 million. Kleiner has taken a lot of s**t in the press over the past few years and as someone who has known many of the partners and staff over the years I find almost all of it unwarranted. What about Kleiner?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. It strokes your ego. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Bring your questions.

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