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

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leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership,

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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I had realized that I didn’t have it within me to be as good of a player as many of them did but I had the skills to help as mentor, coach, friend, sparing partner and patient capital provider. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). She is a coach and mentor to team members. Thus began my marketing campaign.

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Digital Activists: WelkerMedia Is Launching a Free Global Accelerator

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One notable fact about the competition: While it’s free to enter, fellows should have a plan in place to co-finance their participation through either a fellowship or partner funding. “We have being working on the idea of ​​an accelerator since 2015,” Sonya says. While WelkerMedia’s U.S.

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My Number One Advice for Startups or VCs: Conviction > Consensus

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Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) April 29, 2015. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. Great leaders are rare and competition for capital, people, press and customers can be brutal. I saw this Tweet recently by Scott Belsky, co-founder and CEO of Behance.

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Startup Glory Awaits: Become the Startup of the Year Champion

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Being a part of the SOTY alumni lasts well beyond the pitch competition. One of our advisors heard about the Startup of the Year competition and thought we should consider pitching. The Startup of the Year competition has always recognized that great ideas and talent live everywhere – not just the coasts. APPLY HERE.

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Startups Without Business Plans Are Expensive Hobbies

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Based on my experience as an investor and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, one of the quickest ways to kill your credibility and your startup is to offer a poorly written business plan, or none at all. Marty Zwilling ** First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/16/2015.

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