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Advice, lessons, and tips from GV partners and our community of entrepreneurs.
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Advice, lessons, and tips from GV partners and our community of entrepreneurs.

Editors
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GV
GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
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Laura Melahn
Partner at GV
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Graham Hancock
Video guy. Coffee aficionado. Video producer and Filmmaker at GV (@GVteam) in San Francisco, CA
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Mandy Kakavas
Communications Partner @ GV (Google Ventures)
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vanessa cho
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Michael Margolis
UX Research Partner at GV (fka Google Ventures). Advising, teaching, and conducting practical research for hundreds of startups since 2010.
Writers
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Michael Margolis
UX Research Partner at GV (fka Google Ventures). Advising, teaching, and conducting practical research for hundreds of startups since 2010.
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M.G. Siegler
Writer turned investor turned investor who writes. General Partner at GV. I blog to think.
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Daniel Burka
Daniel is a designer and product manager. He works on Simple.org
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Braden Kowitz
Co-founder @RangeLabs. Writing about product, design, and how to build high-performing teams.
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Jessica Verrilli
Co-Founder of Adverb Ventures. Founding partner of #ANGELS. Previously: GP at GV, VP of Corp Dev & Strategy at @Twitter.
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Ken Norton
More essays at bringthedonuts.com
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John Zeratsky
Supporting startups with capital and sprints. Co-founder and general partner at Character. Author of Sprint and Make Time. Former partner at GV.
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Enrique Allen
Co-founder of Designer Fund. Investor in design leaders like Stripe, Gusto, & Omada Health. Lecturer at Stanford dschool. Former 500S, Facebook Fund, Venrock.
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Kerry Rodden
Consulting in data visualization, UX, data science. Exploring AI/ML. Ex-Google/YouTube. Trying not to lose my Scottish accent or forget my UK slang. She/her.
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zopilote.co
Mike is a Design Manager in UX at Google where he focuses on fostering the design culture. Prior to Google, he was a co-founder of Cuban Council.
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David Krane
CEO: Google Ventures, Dad to three, TEDster, sneakerhead, aspiring hockey star...
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Rick Klau
Husband. Dad of 3. Working on what’s next. Previously: 13+ years @Google ( @GVteam @YouTube @Blogger ).
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Henry Tsai
Writing about tech, design, productivity, and lessons learned, @henry_tsai
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Jake Knapp
Writer, designer, person. Author of SPRINT and MAKE TIME. Co-founder of character.vc. More at jakeknapp.com.
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Joshua Porter
Product Designer and Co-Founder of Rocket Insights
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Sasha Lubomirsky
Curiouser and curiouser.
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Chad Thornton
Head of Design, Airtable
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Sean McBride
Now: @RangeLabs! Previously: @Intercom, @Typekit (@Adobe), @Google, @OlinCollege. Frequently: web, design, code, cocktails, wine, skiing. Married to @sjcary!
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Nina Mehta
designer, writer, artist / ninamehta.com
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LendUp
Our mission is to provide anyone with a path to better financial health.
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Lem Diaz
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Kate Aronowitz
Design Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures)
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vanessa cho