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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. Inevitably as a society we began “teaching to the tests” and we design curricula around proficiency in these basic skills. So Why Imbellus?

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA? .

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Social Media: Snapchat. Part accelerator, part lab, and part café, Hub LA is a diverse community working for social good.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

And after six months of insane design, coding and development, we have several new products to share with the world.” So, we set our sights further and began reimaging what’s possible. We tapped into our community and brainstormed with them in our office. We began prototyping new, progressive experiences.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

One of the defining characteristics of product design is that reducing friction of a given feature/function drives usage of that feature/function. It will be interesting to see if any new startups can compete against the industry giants in picture and video sharing: Instagram, Vine, FaceBook, and SnapChat.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. I think design forward companies, we can get a little more attention and more referral traffic from that fact that we focus on aesthetics. ML: I do.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. But ignoring SnapChat for video is a mistake. It requires too many skills in SEO, audience measurement, platform integrations, CRM, retargeting, a/b testing of titles/thumbnails and development of one’s own platform for CMS and mobile distribution.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. To watch a young company win 1,000+ seat deals at Global 100 companies at this stage of development has been simply stunning. Think about Snapchat.

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MARCH 7, 2015

Or SnapChat won’t compete and ephemeral video them. But I walked into a board meeting this week with my partner Kara Nortman and she was filming live on Meerkat asking one of her developers new product ideas. But I am willing to say right now that this Meerkat thing is a phenomenon and it’s magical.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. It turns out that their are constant magic moments of your child’s development that happen at night.

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