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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

Both Sides of the Table

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I don’t believe in distributed teams in early-stage business. I’m ecstatic to have in the LA community. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?

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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

Since July 2014 Nadella has evangelized a device-and-platform-agnostic strategy for Microsoft. in August 2014, Microsoft’s acquisition of Mojang creates an audience, to which Microsoft can serve ads for its library of software and content, or create opportunities to revitalize the flagging performance of the Windows mobile device ecosystem.

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Essay: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development

The Startup Magazine

The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. from 1997 to 2014. Entrepreneurs Create and Distribute Wealth. Entrepreneurship is known for the high risks involved in launching a startup.

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? It may be the first one built into the watch, but it’s not the first Apple Watch ECG app cleared by the FDA – AliveCor , got over-the-counter-clearance in 2014 and Cardiac Designs in 2013.)

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Some of our portfolio companies will rely on great design to create loyal usage like Sunrise Calendar. Pierre was also named to MIT Technology Review ‘s Innovators Under 35 list.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? If I could give 2014 Kieran one piece of advice from 2024 Kieran, it would be to center this much more explicitly in how I approached my job as CEO.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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