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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. So he has the exact same ratio of time available per board as any full-time partner at Upfront does.

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The Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups

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Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. 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. But without these unsung heroes you’ll go nowhere.

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Understanding the Politics of Tech Startups

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I can assure you that move wasn’t a walk in the park for the board. You need to understand power, ownership, leadership, performance, relationships, motivations, alcoholism, depression, resentment, jealousy, scorn. Zynga not only had many hirings & firings but ultimately it led to Mark Pincus stepping aside as CE O.

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Sisterhood of Success: Female Founders Share Insights on Thriving Together

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The best advice she ever gave me, though, was to join the EO to build my leadership skills and my support network. 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.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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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. We recently added Richard Mumby to our leadership team.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. June 5th, 2012. Somewhere in the mix, timing matters a great deal and first isn’t often the most significant mover advantage. Invested Interests.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

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So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going. So when something in changing those at ground zero, in my word, “get the memo.”

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