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Gen Z Making money: From Social Media Influencers to Gig Economy

VC Cafe

So much so, that the internet is already filled with articles such as “ 5 money lessons millennials can learn from Gen Z ”, explaining how those who were born after 1995 are improving the ways in which they make a profit. The New York Times.) Show me the money. So how are they making their big money? Vanity Fair.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years. EightSixtySouth is the rebrand of Post+Beam, an innovation and communication agency that opened over 10 years ago in New York. It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York. Photo Credit: Matt Segal. 14- Inspired by our address.

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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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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 but it wasn’t until 1979 that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) started crash-testing cars (the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started their testing in 1995). In 1984 New York State mandated seat belt use ( now required in 49 of the 50 states.).

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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. As well as twenty-three years at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Savage worked as the head of New York Foreign Exchange trading for Lehman Brothers and as a Director of Proprietary Trading at Bank of America Securities.

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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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What is Coworking? Everything You Need to Know

Austin Startup

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City.

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