I recently announced that my company Astrid raised seed funding from Google Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and a number of individual angel investors. I found the process had a lot in common with my previous fundraising and partnership development work in the non-profit world, where I asked hundreds of individuals and organizations to give significant amounts of time and money …
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During the summer of 2007, for the first time since I graduated from college I began to explore the possibility of leaving campus ministry. I was leading a week-long seminar entitled Beyond Graduation for around 20 newly-minted Stanford alumni. That week, for the first time I started to sense it was time for me to leave the campus. A week …