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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Since I’m mainly doing this for my own interest and this isn’t supposed to be a scientific analysis, I’m going to instead look at the 2019 list and compare it to the 2009 list. It was interesting to compare the demographics of the 2009 list vs. the 2019 list. In 2009, white males made up about 70% of the list vs. 56% in 2019.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” For Upfront Ventures, across > 25 years of investing in any given fund 5–8 investments will return more than 80% of all distributions and it’s generally out of 30–40 investments. So it’s about 20%.

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5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

Business leaders with wide relationships are able to more quickly find and close on alliances to fill gaps in their product line, increase distribution, and reduce costs through common components. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/27/2019. Very few businesses can grow organically fast enough to stay ahead of competition.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). Fortune December 2019 Investor Roundtable. Enterprise Tech in 2019. Consider 2019 another year of blocking and tackling as the Fortune 500 continues their march to the cloud.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

In 2019, well be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies.

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The Future Of Retail And America In The Post-COVID World

YoungUpstarts

Walmart reported online grocery sales of over $900 million in March, an increase of 21% from February 2020 and an astounding 99% increase from March 2019. By comparison, only 13% of US households used the same service in August 2019. The New Table Stakes in Grocery Retail.

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The Top Four Marketing Trends for 2019

Duct Tape Marketing

The Top Four Marketing Trends for 2019 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on 2019 Marketing Trends. Cloud-based storage and communication systems have made it easier for distributed teams to collaborate and get things done. Get Up to Speed on Google My Business.