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

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Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking. I think there are two reasons for this: 1.

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CapLinked Adds Startup Funding Docs

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Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , the developer of a software-as-a-service tool for managing venture capital and angel fundraising efforts for companies, said today that it has launched a free library of document templates covering the startup process. CapLinked, which is headed by PayPal alum Eric M. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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We figured out that the clients did not so much care about the machines, but the services we were providing with them, including marketing, printing materials, and templates, and because we were generating leads for the clients. The retention rates were low, which mean they could not invest in marketing like we can.

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PromoJam's New Social Promotion Tool Surfaces Esri Startup Effort

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That group has been focused on startups, investments, and acquisitions, including the recent buys of startups SpotOn, GeoIQ, and GeoLoqi.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies. We have invested in building an associate program that seeks to work operationally with our portfolio companies rather than looking to source new deals. See what we did there? That seems pretty superficial!”.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

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A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format. I am not alone in my opinion that Shark Tank is not representative of real-world tech investing. Experienced entrepreneurs have no issues parsing where reality stops and entertainment begins.