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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Let’s start with the fund.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I know it’s not single-handed as he has both fantastic partners at Foundry Group and many other community leaders. David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1. Community Leaders + Organizers.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Henry Sy, the guy behind the world-famous SM Malls, is a household name in the Philippines. He has also been named CEO of the Shark Group, a brand consultancy firm. He envisioned a means for long-distance partners and team members to stay in touch when he founded the audio-visual cloud conferencing platform Zoom in 2011.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2017

Hearpreneur

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We finally found a reliable partner and I am very confident that this service will be as successful as the others we deliver. Thanks to Ilina Simeonova, LUCKY Life Tools ! #7-

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5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics

mashable.com

Anyone can easily run a search for his or her brand name and see how actively it’s being discussed in social media. Try using a few search Google operators, for example: ["brand name" -intitle:"brand name"] to find in-text brand mentions you are most likely to have missed. Top From Our Partners. Thanks Ann Smarty!!

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The Right Way to Cancel a Meeting

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It was a big industry luminary and he needed to see whether he could meet with this advisor.&# I can’t name who this advisor was or it would give the company away. We write that into the calendar entry so that I (and any my partners) know this and would only reschedule if extremely urgent. But it is a very big bigwig indeed.

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10 Ways To Identify Opportunists, Time Wasters, & B *s

YoungUpstarts

Ask yourself, if this person is so successful and was already making so much money, why are they now telling everyone they are your business partner? Prior to Silent Rich, Mr. Colton founded and exited a number of successful online companies, including the popular Las Vegas tourism guide JackColton.com and Blackout Artist Management.

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