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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

Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect. And all the platform stuff. Yves enjoys the same things I do?—?investing

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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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When Products People Love Die in the Cloud

This is going to be BIG.

Today, one of my portfolio companies, Editorially , announced that it was shutting down. I can''t say enough about the terrific job that Mandy, David, Jason and their team did to create a product that many people loved. A holding company that could be the Land of Misfit toys for webapps?

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

After former CEO Steve Jobs departed the business in 1985, Apple entered a ten-year downward spiral as competitors' lower-priced products notably Microsoft Windows, dominated the personal computer market. Richard Branson bet on more than 100 companies, and most of them failed. Thanks to Justin Carpenter, Modern Maids ! #15-

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9 Common Things that Stunt Business Growth (and What to Do about Them)

ConversionXL

Before we get to that though, I asked my LinkedIn connections about the #1 thing holding back their companies. It’s clear from the 80+ answers that many things hold companies back, so consider these nine a starting point in your quest to improve your business. (As View the post and the answers. Okay, let’s get into it.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

As Garry Tan observes , the GitHub outcome demonstrates the true power of building relevant products for developers. And yesterday, another feather in the cap — GitHub. Under Nadella, Microsoft has already open-sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and MSFT Edge JavaScript engine, among others.].

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

Steve Blank

Your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding. 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. . For example, our product has more than 300 discrete components … just for the vent .”