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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. The answer of course, was Venture Capital, but that was not in the cards—as yet.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York! He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. We then spoke about startups.

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Uh-oh! Do you have a “sitcom” startup?

Up and Running

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. Do the same thing on other social networks with advertising platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Turns at Albuquerque: How I Measure My Career

This is going to be BIG.

I started working in 1995 at the age of 15 in the mailroom at Waterhouse Securities (which became TD Waterhouse) at 100 Wall Street. Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. When I took the job, the New York startup ecosystem was nascent. Venture Capital & Technology'

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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. We also have a great panel coming up next Thursday night, Jan.

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ProfessorVC: Man Camp

Professor VC

Several years later, Bandon Trails opened in 1995 and the fourth course (Old Macdonald) is scheduled to open by summer 2010. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture Hacks. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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