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Talking Venture Funding w/ Miriam Rivera, Managing Director at Ulu Ventures / former Google VP
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This week Venture Vignettes host Riana Shah got to have a heart-to-heart with Miriam Rivera, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ulu Ventures, an early stage venture fund in Silicon Valley. Miriam has worked at all stages of new ventures, from formation to Fortune 500 public company, Google Inc. At Google, Miriam became vice president and saw Google grow from 200 employees to over 15,000. Miriam serves on many non-profit and for-profit boards and has been voted one of the top 100 women of influence in Silicon Valley. As a first-generation college student and scholarship recipient, Miriam graduated from Stanford University where she earned the AB/AM and JD/MBA degrees. In this podcast we talk about a wide range of topics including coming from humble beginnings, the early days of Google, innovating business models to increase revenues, and seed-stage investing. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/venture-vignettes/support
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This week Venture Vignettes host Riana Shah got to have a heart-to-heart with Miriam Rivera, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ulu Ventures, an early stage venture fund in Silicon Valley. Miriam has worked at all stages of new ventures, from formation to Fortune 500 public company, Google Inc. At Google, Miriam became vice president and saw Google grow from 200 employees to over 15,000. Miriam serves on many non-profit and for-profit boards and has been voted one of the top 100 women of influence in Silicon Valley. As a first-generation college student and scholarship recipient, Miriam graduated from Stanford University where she earned the AB/AM and JD/MBA degrees. In this podcast we talk about a wide range of topics including coming from humble beginnings, the early days of Google, innovating business models to increase revenues, and seed-stage investing. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/venture-vignettes/support
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