Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable. And Greg was a perfect match for all of these.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

One day if you’re lucky you’ll be big enough to work with recruiters to hire senior members of your team or your board. And in it he profiles the work of Coach Campbell who was once on the boards of both Google & Apple. EXECUTIVE RECRUITERS. It’s a great read.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As I said in this post , I am generally a “one share one vote proponent”, but I have supported founder control provisions in a few companies where I was or am on the board. The founder had a 10:1 supervoting provision and controlled a majority of the board seats. We saw that play out with WeWork this week.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

I can assure you that move wasn’t a walk in the park for the board. It was written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann and documents the 2012 election from the early GOP primary fights right through to the final outcome. Zynga not only had many hirings & firings but ultimately it led to Mark Pincus stepping aside as CE O.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. I’m told she just signed with one who will be on-boarded soon. How’s that for an ex painter? When Sam Teller first encountered Tracy he knew instantly he wanted to work with her. She’s infectious.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

About a year and a half after starting my business, I joined EO and was quickly invited onto the board of directors where I sat with a woman who is so unapologetically herself. I have never worked so hard in all my life, but the rewards and personal growth have been worth every bit. As women, we are often socialized to “shrink ourselves”. .

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. June 5th, 2012. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . All of which brings me back to the question in the title: who makes the money on investing in future convenience? . Invested Interests.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

This is consistent with data I see from RingRevenue , a company in which I invested and sit on the board. RingRevenue grew it’s revenue 3x 2010 over 2011 and is on track to grow more than 3x again in 2012 with no signs of slowing. Here are some data provided by a BIA / Kelsey report (2012). We have ridden the mobile wave.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

I’m taking people on board and asking them, what is your vision for small businesses? I graduated from college in 2012. How do you keep the essence of what LinkUp is as it grows larger? When I’m looking for new employees, I’m looking for the right attitude, the right values. Is this something you are passionate about?

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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

Founded in 2012 by Katlin Smith, Simple Mills is a market-leading natural foods brand offering premium better-for-you crackers, cookies, snack bars, and baking mixes. HPA led the first round of institutional capital in 2014, providing subsequent capital and strategic support to help drive growth and innovation. Full press release here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. Thank you to the team that had extreme success in 2012 and a more challenging year in 2013. Companies being created has continued to go up dramatically making managing dealflow nearly impossible.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

Carlos Rivas was a student in El Salvador when he competed in the 2012 EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). The company was born from a board game—literally paper and cardboard game—project in university. After earning a spot as a finalist, he traveled to New York City to take part in the Global Finals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Wellesley High School, 2012. In 2012, he delivered a 12-minute commencement speech at Wellesley High School, in one of the most affluent towns in America. Here are a few of my favorites that fit this bill. David McCullough Jr., David McCullough Jr.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2024

Cilingir at the helm as CEO with Chief Revenue Officer Serhat Soyuerel and others co-founded the AI-native platform in 2012 that boasts a community of 200,000+ CX, marketing & e-commerce professionals. Companies with women on their boards tend to perform better on the stock market. Women matter, and representation matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. So Investor A might have bought 20% of your company in 2012 and in 2013 with no addition money invested suddenly owns 40% of your company. They often don’t have board seats attached to them.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

She is currently a board director for Workwhile and a board observer for Outschool. . Mohnot previously served as vice president of business development at Groupon after a startup he founded, FeeFighters, was acquired by the company in 2012. He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund. Early action equals bigger savings.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. And he led what is currently our best performing company out of that 2012 fund – AdoreMe. Many potential investors asked me, “Aren’t you just going to leave and form your own fund?”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. I know because I went back a second time with 75 or so tech executives and VCs and my inbox is flooded this morning. You can read more about her here but let me give you my take.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Word travels at light speed amongst this small network of people who all know each other and even though they’re rivals they also sit on boards together and many probably went to business school together. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

Philippe Gluntz, President of France Angels , was honoured as the 2012 EBAN Angel of the Year, while the Finnish Business Angel Network ( FiBAN ) was recognized as Business Angel Network of 2012. Views of the Moscow Cathedral, the Kremlin and Red Square were marvelous from the cruise ship.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As part of the transaction , Vangelov told TechCrunch that he will join Starco’s board and is getting shares in the new company, while himself and Soylent’s shareholders will become the largest single voting block in Starco. He and the board chose to partner with Starco Brands. Other financial details were not disclosed.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The climatetech venture builder also has the support of EDB New Ventures, the venture-building arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board. This partnership combines Wavemaker Impact’s strong venture-building expertise and extensive founder networks with EDB’s access to sustainability-focused corporates and insights on climate needs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Gener8tor has flown under the radar a little despite putting a lot of points on the board: It has been operating for more than a decade and has had 34 exits (including Pretty Litter , Curate , GrocerKey and Bright Cellars ). “I think there were more local accelerators between 2012 and 2014 than there are today.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The processes I used to hire our first COO in 2012 and the second one in 2018 were basically the same and are strongly inspired by Topgrading as well as the Who Method. We used the following methods to generate applications: We spread the job description on all the relevant job boards as well as social networks like LinkedIn and XING.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

He joined Accel as a venture partner in July and he’s going to join Lydia’s board of directors. They had just released their mobile app in April of 2012,” Jhawar told me in a phone interview. Jhawar joined payments company Braintree in 2011 as COO and CFO. Shortly after, Braintree acquired peer-to-peer payment app Venmo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The round comes less than six months after the company raised $35 million in a round led by Sorenson Ventures, and brings the New York-based company’s total raised to $196 million since its 2012 inception. Accel partner Amit Jhawar will join Socure’s board as part of the funding round. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. Watching him develop over the past 4.5 This latter bit is very important to us and very hard to achieve.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. It isn’t new stuff. And then came AOL.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Guo joined Greylock in 2013 as the firm’s first woman partner and will now transition into the role of board partner. She also is a board director at Mystery and 0x Labs. Guo didn’t respond to a request for comment. In March, Kathryn Haun (formerly Andreessen Horowitz) raised $1.5 billion for Haun Ventures’ debut crypto fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset. She is also the founder of and former chairman of YPO Atlanta and a serves as a member of the board for Barwick Bank and Authomate. Learn more about EO today!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. However, it wasn’t until two years later that Njeru joined fulltime as he had a six-year engagement with Deloitte South Africa from 2012 as a consultant actuary. As part of the new fundraise, TLcom’s senior partner Omobola Johnson will join Pula’s board.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Green, who has collected a series of accolades, including being honored in Time’s 100 Most Influential People and named a Top 20 Venture Capitalists by The New York Times, currently serves as a board member on several portfolio companies, including Glossier, Faire, Hims-Hers, Curated, Ritual and Modern Fertility.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno. When asked what motivated her, Ms.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Mohnot sold a company, FeeFinders, to Groupon 2012]. We’d started conversations with other institutions at that point but everyone said it would take a while and that institutions won’t come until you raise your second fund, so we didn’t have high hopes that we’d get a lot of them on board.

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