As an early stage venture investor for the past two decades, I have been fortunate to work with many outstanding startup teams, venture capitalists, and industry leaders. The transition from 2017 to 2018 provided me with a window for self-reflection on the patterns of success and failure that I have observed in technology entrepreneurship. This […]
As the interest in the Blockchain grows, our interaction with Blockchain entrepreneurs grows as well. Clear hosted 4 speakers covering use cases across education, mobile security, exchanges and other inspired talks. Demand for learning in this space is exploding. Join us for our next meeting. […]
Clear believes that the Customer Success organization is not only critically important — but is strategic — to a company’s success. Regardless of the phase of a company’s growth, the company needs to consider the strategic role the Customer Success team will play, and plan for it now. In this Best Practices event, we heard […]
The Blockchain will change every industry it touches. Whether we are talking about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Smart Contracts, Distributed Ledger, Dapps, or more, the future will be dominated by the blockchain.
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Hundreds of companies are being created every month to take advantage of this new paradigm. This group exists to talk about the opportunities being created for entrepreneurs to take advantage of this massive change in the way businesses and consumers work with each other. […]
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We sincerely hope you made it this year. If you did, see if you can find yourself in this album.
We got to spend time with old friends and new entrepreneurs. In addition, we had some wonderful food and drink and some of you made it up the climbing wall! Work hard. Play hard. Be part of the Clear network. […]
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Dr. Olukotun is a Stanford Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab. His talk on the impact of machine learning included:
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We at Clear Ventures, like many of you, believe workplace diversity is an increasingly important topic to discuss. We sponsored a workshop on diversity and informal conversations on “Funding Women Entrepreneurs”. The event was a gathering of alumni from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science. In addition, Rajeev Madhavan spoke to the entire gathering on a variety of topics related to entrepreneurship and venture capital. […]
Out two-day workshop was taught by the premier coach on presentation skills, Jerry Weissman. Jerry has coached more than 600 CEOs just prior to their IPO roadshow.
Our students included any key individual within our portfolio companies that might present to investors, customers, outside organizations and even employees. The skills gained in this workshop make all the difference when attempting to influence any audience. […]
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The famous scientist Louis Pasteur popularized the Latin phrase “Fortuna favet menti paratae”, or “fortune favors the prepared.” Nowhere is this more important than when entrepreneurs seek to raise venture capital (VC) funding. VC funding provides entrepreneurs with critical resources to enable significant success. However, securing VC funding can be difficult, especially for unproven founders. […]
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Some of the sharpest minds in the development world shared their best practices at Clear’s DevOps Best Practices Meetup. While each of our portfolio companies has different development needs, they all benefited from sharing their specific best practices with each other. The most popular topic of the Meetup was microservices. […]
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