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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. In a market doing this it becomes very hard to do otherwise.

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Netflix Steals Back HR Exec From Scopely

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Netflix said on Thursday that it has named Jessica Neal as Chief Talent Officer of the company, to head up the company's group responsible for culture, human resources, recruiting, and coaching its team, according to the company. She had joined Scopely in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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Delane Parnell’s plan to conquer amateur esports

TechCrunch LA

The company raised $46 million last year—its first year operating—with the vision that owning the infrastructure for competitions and expanding it to encompass other social elements of gaming can make it the largest gaming company in the world. And I was on the founding team of a car rental company called Executive Rental Car.

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Arivale Brings Gene Sequencing Driven Wellness To Los Angeles

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The startup combines whole genome sequencing and other diagnostic tests, along with data analysis software, and provides counselor-driven, health coaching services aimed at long-term health and wellness of its clients. Arivale raised $36M in 2015 from Maveron, ARCH Venture Partners and Polaris Partners.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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. Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder).

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015.

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5 Ways To Improve Startup Founder Team Productivity

Startup Professionals Musings

For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring. I fully understand that the best entrepreneurs are problem solvers by nature, so this approach requires a mindset change from solving to a specific answer, to coaching on the process, which will pay big dividends for both of you as the company grows.

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