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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital). One of the interesting applications for this technology is assessing intellect in job interviews.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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The R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator, Powered by Techstars

Feld Thoughts

R/GA is part of Interpublic Group of Companies, one of four global ad holding companies, and is the most award-winning agency in the digital world today. If you’re a founder or startup focused on an innovative idea for a product and/or service in the connected devices space, please consider applying.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The billion-dollar behemoth that Marvel is today rose from a comics company that failed a couple of times, rose from the ashes, went bankrupt in the 1990s, and then arose like the superhuman characters that its lead cartoonist Stan Lee helped create. GM was first a holding company when it was established in 1908 by William C.

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26 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

He was successful due to his blunt honesty. I am a huge fan of Charlie Munger, who is the Vice Chairman of the famed holding company Berkshire Hathaway. I follow his principle rigorously: I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.

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