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Two Amazing Women Setting Out on Their Startup Journey

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Showing me designs. She helps write press releases. She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers. Soleil is paranoid about leaking design & product information because she’s been burned. In the most perfect sense of the definition.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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By definition, you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Why I Backed a 24-Year-Old Trying to Assess Human Potential

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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. I know that “mission driven” sounds nebulous or some convenient definition of anything we want to fund. But really it’s something I look for.

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Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate

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Great programmers are artists, for sure, but rock stars is about the last definition I’d choose. Tristan told me that he thought he could design shaving products for people of color that would solve this problem.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. So you either need to invest millions or partner with a “tools company” designed to help you promote and distribute video. To produce content that people want to watch takes unique skills: Writing. Set design. You Must Produce Your Own Videos. Post-Production.

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will definitely be handled. We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) Do I have to write up the overview? If you can't tell us the details of what you are doing without an NDA, it won't make sense for us to talk.

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