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The Changing Venture Landscape

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The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. We also have a world that is, as Thomas Friedman so elegantly put it?—?“ Hot, Flat & Crowded.”

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Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures, On Mental Health And Investing In Founders

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We spoke with Brian Garrett , Managing Director and Co-founder of the firm, on why the venture investment firm decided to launch the program. Tell us about this new program? Brian Garrett: We're launching a founder health and wellness program. It's a comprehensive bucket. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.

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This Startup Airline Lets You Fly Everyday / Any Day – For A Flat Fee

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As noted in Success, Santa Barbara Style , my definition of success includes living where you want to live and making money doing what you love. For many entrepreneurs in Santa Barbara, achieving such success would be much more difficult if it weren’t for the emergence of an innovative airline – Surf Air.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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the link is here. I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed. Much of this is unfounded – some is not. If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. 10) Thorsten, why does the world need RightScale? . “Oh, Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. Thanks for the time today. We really believe in the market.

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