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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. Remote-Distributed (a.k.a. Why have remote, distributed teams suddenly become the smart way to build software companies? But the world has changed.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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So we stayed close to our investment themes of: healthcare, fintech, computer vision, marketing technologies, video game infrastructure, sustainability and applied biology and we have partners that lead each practice area. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but We also focus heavily on geographies.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

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I explained why authorities like Sam Altman of Y-Combinator , Angel List’s Naval Ravikant, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gurley, GP at Benchmark Capital , believe boundaryless companies built by remote-distributed teams are the future of work. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. 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. Is the game over?

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. How many fresh college graduates are going to LA or Seattle or New York versus coming to the Bay Area? people looking to move to Austin).

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Nine Companies That Got Brand Right

YoungUpstarts

With a subscription-based razor delivery model, Dollar Shave Club outflanked Gillette by not distributing through traditional retailers. By inventing and patenting the technology for their fabric in 1969, they claimed the gold standard in waterproof fibers. Lindsay lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.

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