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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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5 Tech Companies That Have Made It Big And Here’s Why

YoungUpstarts

The company was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. #4. One of the popular social media apps around the world, Facebook is also considered a technological success. One of the popular social media apps around the world, Facebook is also considered a technological success. Alphabet Inc.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I’m going to start by going back to 1994. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Read Gotham: The History of New York City to 1898.)

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

When we syndicated the purchase of the Buffalo, New York cable system, we literally called everybody we knew and raised an unprecedented $16 million, a breathtaking sum in 1980. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), This isn’t correct either.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

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The Year of Startups Everywhere

Feld Thoughts

When I reflect on where some of our investments are, they are in cities like Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Minneapolis, Boulder, Denver, Charlotte, Lexington, New York, and Boston. And then there’s Techstars which is now all over the world. Or you can just call it San Francisco, Oakland, and the Peninsula.

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Hey White Guys, You’re Invited!

Austin Startup

It inspired an on-the-spot brainstorm for a slew of D/I presentations at SXSW 2019 such as the straightforward: “Hey White Guys, You’re Invited,” or “Start Line Here if You Want to Make it in a 21st Century Economy,” and lastly, “Don’t be Afraid of POC in Media and Tech Who Have been Fueling Original Creative Thought All Along Here.”

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