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Interview with Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. Jeb Spencer: The goal at TVC Capital is to do exactly this. These companies don't traditionally get venture capital. Talk more about your philosophy of investments?

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6 Ways To Build And Capitalize On Personal Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

This momentum is what you need for enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as for others to see you as a business leader. Build positive psychological capital to sustain your business. Without a store of this psychological capital, your performance and leadership will wane, and your satisfaction will dwindle.

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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Engagement and Happiness

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Based on my own long experience in business, team satisfaction, engagement, and productivity continues to be a challenge. Most people don’t recognize their own strengths, and need your help, as well as strength assessment tools, to capitalize on them. Getting peers to help others also is a great source of satisfaction and engagement.

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Central Desktop Names New Board Member

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Vora is the CEO of Acrolinx, and also had served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Foundational Capital, as well as a VP at Oracle and Adobe. Vora also founded Oblix, which was acquired by Oracle, and sits on the boards of Get Satisfaction and NextPrinciples, among other positions.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

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Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week.

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Abodu raises $20M to build prefabricated backyard homes

TechCrunch LA

Previous backer Initialized Capital also participated in the financing, along with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, former Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs, GGV investor Hans Tung and Paradox Capital’s Kyle Tibbitts. . The result has been very high levels of customer satisfaction and rapid growth.”

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Missed Expectations and the 80% M&A Rule.

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Study the literature about companies that have succeeded in their acquisitions, finding how and why such successes rose to the top twenty percent of all acquisitions when measured by the acquiring company CEO satisfaction ratings after a year. How about those less-experienced buyers? Emulate those actions that are appropriate.