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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Yet despite his ability to raise over $1 billion of private equity and to build an organization that is worth $5 billion as of this writing, Mason was shown the door. Of course as Facebook and even Microsoft has shown, being first does not ensure success.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. My brother is actually at Anthem Ventures, working with Bill Woodward, and I was an intern there in business school. On the software side, we're really focused on building out to common course standards. Jake got a similar amount.