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J im is passionate about investing, social entrepreneurship and venture philanthropy, contemporary and modern art, photography, film, wine, and music. He actively supports numerous educational and environmental non-profit initiatives. In February, 2013, Jim was elected a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, Harvard University's senior governing board. Jim is a Partner at Accel and is the Founder/CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm. Jim has been an investor in over 30 consumer Internet, media, and technology companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers. Several of these investments returned over 100 times their cost and many additional of these investments have returned over 25 times their cost to investors.

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Freestyle Capital CrunchBase is hiring! Check out our open positions → TechCrunch CrunchBase More Meeting with a VC Much has been written about the VC process over the years. The best VC and founder blogs have a done an amazing job at shedding some light and advice on a process that had previously been mysterious and confusing. Some of the important ways to prepare are to choose your VC targets wisely, do they have the same style as you do, do they share your vision, check references, and be clear about your objectives in the meeting. David G. Cohen David G. Cohen is the Founder, Managing Partner and CEO of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment firm. He has founded four companies, including Pinpoint Technologies (Broomfield, CO, public safety software, acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation in 1999), iContact.com (Boulder, CO, mobile social networking, defunct), earFeeder.com (Boulder, CO, acquired by SonicSwap) and TechStars. He is also an active angel investor nationally managing about $70M in funding.

Going to Raise VC? Here’s a Primer on Process, People & Powerpoint Deck If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close. All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “Raising VC” tab) 1. sans titre Why Join Us Engagement is at the heart of the BlaBlaCar member experience. The Engage tribe scope is twofold: maximizing usage within the product, and creating an ongoing positive relationship with members outside the product experience. The product of our work is increased value of each member to the BlaBlaCar platform and higher member satisfaction. To fulfill this ambition, as Product Manager you will join a dedicated agile cross-skills squad, operating as a mini start-up within BlaBlaCar.

Kapor Capital Headquarters Location Number of Employees Investor Type Investment Stage Website Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory – 2011 Edition This is the 4th edition of the Venture Capital Blog Directory (1st edition, 2nd edition, 3rd edition). This directory includes 149 venture capital, microVC/seed, and growth equity blogs. The imperfect statistic used to rank these blogs is their average monthly uniques in Q410 from Compete (more methodology info below).

BlaBlaCar Product Manager - Satisfy Why you would want to join us One of BlaBlaCar’s strategic goals is to increase the satisfaction of people using BlaBlaCar. To achieve this goal, you will join a cross-functional team (product managers, data analysts , UX designers, front & backend engineers and mobile developpers) named Satisfy, which aims to: FIX important pain points;SIMPLIFY the most frequent user scenarios;DELIGHT members beyond their expectations. You will also belong to the larger Product team group, a talented crew of product managers spread across the organization in other agile teams with whom you can share core skills and knowledge.

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