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What I Learned in 2014: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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2014 was the most active year in TVC history as measured by the number of investments/acquisitions/follow-ons/exits we completed. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? spencer capital 2014 reflections venture' Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego.

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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

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Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8

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Spokeo Hits 150 Employees, Reports Growth

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The site--which is led by Harrison Tang--said the growth compaes as it saw 159 percent revenue growth between 2012 and 2014. Financials were not released by the privately held firm.

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will.i.am Launches His Own Wearable Smartband, The i.amPULS

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rolled out the new device at an industry conference for Salesforce.com, Dreamforce 2014. said the new device will also offer up a "intelligent personal assistant"--courtesy Nuance COmmunications--which will dictate text and emails, play music, post to social media, and more.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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By and large, these workers have not benefitted much from recent technology improvements available to office-based workers—think new email and workplace-collaboration technologies, or advanced sales and HR systems. Indeed, more than 60% of U.S. workers and even more globally fall into these “blue collar” industries.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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If you look at the blue line below in what we are calling “private-market IPOs” you’ll see the discernible trend that began in 2014 and has continued through 2018 and you’ll see the impact this has potentially had on public IPOs in green. Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box? Still reading?

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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

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We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. He sent me a few nice emails. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. Sam had different plans.

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