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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let’s start with the fund. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals

InfoChachkie

Attitude – Brad and Jason clearly exhibit an entrepreneur-centric approach to the venture funding process. Examples – The book is filled with text excerpted from actual funding documents, rather than the generic templates usually found in academic textbooks. Price – I am cheapskate. The hardcopy list price of $49.95

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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VC firm policy or fund analysis. He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering.

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Kick-Start Your eCommerce Business for $100 or Less

Startup Professionals Musings

Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Personalize a simple web site.

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Interview with Carey Ransom, RealPractice

socalTECH

We have spoken with the firm in the past, and the company recently raised some new funding and went through some reorganization, including moving the firm to Irvine. Tell me how you ended up at RealPractice, and a bit about the recent funding? Thanks for the time today. But, that's where the market is going.

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Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

Both Sides of the Table

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. A while back I wrote a bunch of posts on Sales & Marketing and have been meaning to get back to that theme for a while.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries. I have often asked for funding for this accelerated development.