Nur El Shami

Early stage investors often weight investment criteria heavily on technological innovation, market size, and management teams. Great tech requires a solid management team to thrive. In my opinion, the best management teams hustle and work hard; learn, evolve, and survive; and are honest, upfront, and transparent with their stakeholders. The foregoing describes Cayley Pater and 🌱 Andy Ives at Made Trade. Made Trade is an impact venture that continues to grow and succeed in an unpredictable funding market. If you bet heavily on management teams, Cayley Pater and 🌱 Andy Ives are a bet worth considering. They are also good for a laugh, which, while not an investable quality, makes business interactions fun!

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UNLOCKING THE SECREATS OF THE GLOBAL VC ECOSYSTEM : A SUMMIT FOR LIMITED PARTNERS AND VENTURE CAPITALISTS TO THE GLOBAL VC's ECOSYSTEM SUMMIT -------------- 💰💵 Check 1st post in features section in my profile 💵💰 -------------- #VCEcosystemSummit #VentureCapital #LimitedPartners #Investment #PortfolioManagement #GrowthStrategy #IndustryLeaders #Networking #Collaboration #Innovation #Startup #Entrepreneurship #Funding #Investor #LP #GP #VC #PrivateEquity #HedgeFund #AssetManagement #WealthManagement #FinancialServices #InvestmentBanking #CapitalMarkets #BusinessGrowth #Scaling #Expansion #Disruption #Volatility #RiskManagement #Resilience #Sustainability #ESG #ImpactInvesting #Diversity #Inclusion #Equity #Equality #WomenInVC #WomenInFinance #MenInVC #MenInFinance #VentureCapitalist #InvestmentBanker #FinancialAnalyst #PortfolioManager #InvestmentManager #AssetManager #WealthManager #FinancialPlanner #InvestmentAdvisor #VCFirm #StartupAccelerator #Incubator #CoworkingSpace #EntrepreneurialEcosystem #InnovationHub #BusinessNetworking #ProfessionalDevelopment #Leadership #Mentorship #CareerGrowth #IndustryTrends #MarketInsights #FinancialRegulations #InvestmentStrategy #RiskAssessment #DueDiligence #DealMaking #MandA #IPO #PrivatePlacement #HedgeFundManager #AssetAllocator #FamilyOffice #SovereignWealthFund #PensionFund #EndowmentFund #VentureCapitalInvesting #StartupFunding #GrowthCapital #ExpansionCapital #Buyout #Recapitalization #Restructuring #Turnaround #DistressedInvesting #SpecialSituations #EventDriven #CreditInvesting #DebtFinancing #EquityInvesting #MezzanineFinancing #GrowthEquity #VentureDebt #SeedFunding #SeriesA #SeriesB #SeriesC #IPOPrep #PreIPO #PostIPO #PrivateCompany #PublicCompany #MicroVC #NanoVC #SeedStage #EarlyStage #GrowthStage #LateStage #PrivateEquityFund #HedgeFundManager #InvestmentPortfolio #RiskManagementStrategy #InvestmentResearch #FinancialPlanning #WealthCreation #CapitalGrowth #InvestmentOpportunities #BusinessExpansion #MarketTrends #IndustryInsights #FinancialInnovation #InvestmentInnovation #VCDeals #StartupSuccess #InvestmentStrategy #PortfolioDiversification #InvestmentRisk #InvestmentReturn #InvestmentGrowth #InvestmentIncome #InvestmentManagement #InvestmentConsulting #PrivateEquityInvesting #HedgeFundInvesting #VentureCapitalInvesting #AngelInvesting #ImpactInvesting #SustainableInvesting #ESGInvesting #ResponsibleInvesting #InvestmentFirms #InvestmentCompanies #InvestmentPartners #InvestmentNetwork #InvestmentCommunity #InvestmentEvents #InvestmentConferences #InvestmentSummit #InvestmentForum #InvestmentRoundtable #StartupInvesting #EarlyStageInvesting #GrowthStageInvesting #LateStageInvesting #PrivateEquityFirms #HedgeFundManagers #VentureCapitalFirms #AngelGroups #ImpactInvestors

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No one does anything alone. Not if they are doing it right. Every day, I get to work with our "secret weapon": Pamela Bernstein-Gulla. She is our COO, Principal Consultant, she worked with me at not one but two of my startups, and for the last four years, she is my indispensable partner at Hill & Co. During times like this, your team is everything. And our clients know it, too! #Jewelry #Gemstones #Diamonds #BusinessStrategy #DigitalMarketing

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No one does anything alone. Not if they are doing it right. Every day, I get to work with our "secret weapon": Pamela Bernstein-Gulla. She is our COO, Principal Consultant, she worked with me at not one but two of my startups, and for the last four years, she is my indispensable partner at Hill & Co. During times like this, your team is everything. And our clients know it, too! #Jewelry #Gemstones #Diamonds #BusinessStrategy #DigitalMarketing

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No one does anything alone. Not if they are doing it right. Every day, I get to work with our "secret weapon": Pamela Bernstein-Gulla. She is our COO, Principal Consultant, she worked with me at not one but two of my startups, and for the last four years, she is my indispensable partner at Hill & Co. During times like this, your team is everything. And our clients know it, too! #Jewelry #Gemstones #Diamonds #BusinessStrategy #DigitalMarketing

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No one does anything alone. Not if they are doing it right. Every day, I get to work with our "secret weapon": Pamela Bernstein-Gulla. She is our COO, Principal Consultant, she worked with me at not one but two of my startups, and for the last four years, she is my indispensable partner at Hill & Co. During times like this, your team is everything. And our clients know it, too! #Jewelry #Gemstones #Diamonds #BusinessStrategy #DigitalMarketing

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3 things I’m unlearning in M&A advisory… 🚫 Never let the client (seller) meet buyers without the banker present 🚫 Never give valuation guidance. Let the auction process inform price 🚫 Run a premium, white-glove M&A auction process, every time Instead of the above, see video below for 3 ways to do M&A advisory better… I learned these tactics via nearly 20 years of capital markets experience; as an operator, advisor, and investor. Comment below with any questions, and if you agree / disagree 👇🏼 —- I’m the founder of RockWater Industries. We do M&A and strategy advisory for media, agencies, and creator economy. My DMs are open. #media #agency #creatoreconomy

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Welcome Nick Lamplough! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts from the communications and investor relations strategies angles on the topic! #communications #investorerelations #publicrelations #crisiscommunications #investors #shareholderactivism #shareholders #proxy #hostiletakeover #privateequity #mergers #mergersandacquisitions #corporatefinance

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The latest from The Rabid Capitalist:

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The VC with more unicorns than Accel, Insight & Sofbank only invests in developing economies. Impressive!  Endeavor‘s rules based VC, Endeavor Catalyst, is probably the best example of how tech and VC have gone global. Vamos, vamos, vamos Allen Taylor! 

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We can easily imagine a future state with AI at the center of innovation and investment. For investors, the most important question is: what does it take to get there? For the strategists at New York Life Investments, AI is an investment megatrend with long term impacts, but with investable approaches that are actionable today. https://bit.ly/4bywAAX

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Got a fundraising sea story for you . . . I've known Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen, Klaviyo co-founders, for >10 years. They personally helped me back when Klaviyo had ~10 employees. I was running marketing at a turnaround in Boston (Karmaloop--it had gone bankrupt). Klaviyo was a few doors down on Boylston street. Or Newbury. I can't quite remember. Our turnaround marketing team was FRUSTRATED. Karmaloop's email program was on some legacy platform (I won't mention it. . . we shouldn't speak ill of the dead). We couldn't do any of the lifecycle marketing we wanted to do . . . . . . and lifecycle marketing was critical to our turnaround thesis. It was the only way we were going to make it work. So after a particularly frustrating time trying to get a triggered email send to work, I threw up my hands, announced "I'm going next door," walked over to Klaviyo, and knocked on the door. Ed answered. Andrew waved--he was coding. "Hey, can your team help me migrate this beast onto your platform and make it sing? Like, this week?" Andrew and Ed bent over backwards for me and helped me get Karmaloop's 5M emails migrated and humming. It's not a stretch to say the turnaround (and the next ones) could only happen because of Klaviyo. I've stayed in touch with them ever since. They've given Michael Epstein and me advice over the years, been in our corner, and been a part of PostPilot journey. (PostPilot's original thesis was simple: "Klaviyo for direct mail." Now, it feels like the story's come full circle, because Andrew and Ed just invested in PostPilot's Series A. Like so many other things in my career, it all started with a turnaround. 

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As the location of the JFK assassination, Dealey Plaza is a site of immense historical significance and controversy. Through hARitage's new augmented reality (AR) app, The Dealey Plaza AR Experience, we offer a free AR tour that enables users to step back in time to November 22, 1963. This immersive experience is not just about revisiting a tragic day in history but understanding the nuances that photographs and videos can't convey. With our AR tour, users can: Explore the exact locations that shaped this pivotal moment, including the Texas School Book Depository, the grassy knoll, and the Zapruder film perspective. Experience the scale of the surroundings to appreciate the distance of the shots. Gain insights into various theories by virtually standing in the exact spots of key witnesses. Our goal is to allow users to explore these historical events critically, fostering a deeper understanding of their impact through technology. We invite educators, students, and history enthusiasts to experience Dealey Plaza in a way that textbooks simply cannot match. Join us in testing the beta version of our app and see how AR can change the way we connect with our past. Your feedback will be invaluable as we continue to refine this educational tool. Please note the current beta version works only at Dealey Plaza -- if you are heading over and want to try it just comment 'Beta' and I'll send you a link to download it. We are adding a 'dollhouse' perspective to project the events to any location -- just comment if you would like to know when that is released. Many thanks to Jim Welch, Eric Peterson and the whole team at The Devhouse Agency. Not only are they great, their office is right across the street from Dealey Plaza making testing a breeze! Please try it out and provide feedback and suggestions!! #AugmentedReality #HistoryEducation #DealeyPlaza #JFKAssassination #TechInEducation

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Reputation is a critical and fundamental aspect of corporate business activity: “…Nine is facing an Olympic-sized revenue headache as it desperately seeks to sell a raft of unfilled advertising slots for its coverage of the Paris Games… …The longer than expected industry-wide slump in the advertising market, combined with the reputational damage borne by Nine over past month…have combined to clip the network’s Olympics revenue projections, insiders say… …The slowdown in advertising revenue has been so dramatic that, if Nine’s coverage of the Paris Games breaks even, it will now be seen as an acceptable result by the company’s bean counters… …In February 2023, Nine paid $305m for the exclusive rights to the next five Olympic Games, from Paris in 2024 through to ­Brisbane in 2032…” [The Australian quote] #advertising #reputation #governance #ROI #risksandmitigants #parisolympics

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Halle Kaplan-Allen and I will be chatting with Ali Hamed tomorrow about sourcing LPs. You can RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/edYZhKrA Ali wrote this excellent tactical piece on networking that is well worth a read for anyone networking their way to capital: https://lnkd.in/eZ_2f_4x This event is presented by Sydecar, a frictionless deal execution platform for venture capitalists. By pioneering a standardized approach to private investing, they enable capital allocators to identify and back entrepreneurs who are changing the world. Their platform reliably handles back-office operations, automating banking, compliance, contracts, tax, and reporting so that customers can focus on making deals and building relationships.

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Here are a few interesting facts about our Amazon JFK27 office or the former Lord and Taylor building. I know a few of youll have had coffee/my favorite CELSIUS Holdings, Inc. and have asked several questions about the artwork or the building! #Amazon #AWS #startups #VentureCapital #corporateVC #Newyork #entrepreneurs

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Machiavellian leaders at the helm, prioritizing self-interest over all else, raise concerns about the true essence of freedom and democracy. Factors like greed, envy, and fear (the toxic triangle) have historically constrained freedoms, making it easier to manipulate the uninformed than the enlightened. Let's heed the warnings against propaganda, cronyism, sexism, nationalism, and the suppression of human rights. Leaders must govern, not just campaign, and uphold the law above all else. In a world where selfishness masquerades as moral superiority, let's reject divisive narratives based on skin color or religious beliefs. After all, we all live in the shelter of each other. Good leaders will guide with positive influence and educational materials; bad leaders will misguide with misinformation and propaganda. “All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” - Adolf Hitler The lessons of history tell us that if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle ‘Machiavellianism’ is a real thing and a major component in the toxic triangle of destructive leadership. As we navigate the complexities of globalization, let wisdom guide us, not misinformation or mystical panaceas. Thomas Jefferson once warned… And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...

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In this episode of "The Future of the Bioeconomy," AV Senior Associate Drew W. and CEO and co-founder of Hyfé Michelle Ruiz discuss the economy's shift from traditional systems to more sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. Watch now! https://buff.ly/3JZ5gQI

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