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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. It’s a great business.

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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. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2006.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. The New York Times describes Hipcamp as “ The Sharing Economy Visits the Backcountry.”

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Loading… New York. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Mozilla Firefox. » More.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. The founders have started companies before. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

A mutual friend connected me in San Francisco with Ori in New York. We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. GMR stands for “Global Marketing Resources.” 3) Global point of view and the value of diversity and difference.

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