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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. leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building? She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership, So why now?

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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walker

Rafa runs Background Capital, and is one of the best partners for early company builders I know. We had code yellow’s fail, and a commonality with those was that the teams involved likely did not agree with leadership that it was actually that important. People who serve on boards are usually smart. Thanks so much Nilam!

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Michael Polk Shares How Smaller Companies Can Offer Big Leadership Development Opportunities

The Startup Magazine

While Polk believes he grew tremendously as a leader and executive in his over 35 years in large public companies, he believes the growth one can get in smaller, private companies can be equally rewarding and the challenges test leaders in different ways earlier in one’s career.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

He previously founded N&N Investments LLC, a real estate investment holding company; and is a program leader and fellow of the Startup Leadership Program. . He stressed that your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding: One thing that we learned very early on was, have a plan for fund-raising. …

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

This included health insurance and making them domestic partners. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies. Four decades later, and thanks to sound financial decisions and clear leadership, Disney is one of the most successful brands and companies in the world. Thanks to Matt Gillman, SMB Compass. #10-

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12 Tips To Leading Your Best Life (2/12)

Jeff Hilimire

I’m kinda proud of the guy (But I’m so not ready for him to go away for college ) A quick update on Purpose Group Purpose Group , the purpose-driven holding company that I founded with Jonathan Morgan and David Cummings, is off to a great start. (My We acquired our first business in May: Gerald Printing & Liberty Imaging.

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I‘ve founded and run marketing agencies for 20 years, I’m running one now, and yet I hate the agency industry. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

Jeff Hilimire

Clients also can start/stop relationships for all sorts of reasons, including good ones like the agency isn’t producing excellent work, but also bad ones such as a new leader comes in and wants to shake things up by cutting all agency partners, or the CEO had dinner with a person and now suddenly, that guy’s agency is forced in. Seasonality.