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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

The de-SPAC process is essentially the process that occurs after a SPAC has agreed to terms with an acquisition target where the two entities are fully merged. 1990-1998 13.3% 22% 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3% In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9 Performance has been more un-even. 1999-2000 51.6%

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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

This is going to be BIG.

Either way the "one stop shop" model went out with portals in 1998. What's really unfortunate is that, each week, community members run tons of high quality events where entrepreneurs connect and learn. So maybe the Touchco acquisition will, in a roundabout way, actually create a lot of future jobs here. So do me a favor.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. When you go into a community bank on average fifty percent of applicants are declined. Bates: You know Josh—. Thank you Sabrina and Jared.

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In Defense of the IPO and How to Improve It, Part 2: Peeking Behind the Pop

Ben's Blog

Thus, they shift more of their allocations to what they perceive as higher yielding assets such as equity securities. Putting aside for now the hot topic of Special Purpose Acquisition Vehicles, or SPACs (which account for about 40% of IPOs this year), we are still experiencing historically low levels of tech IPOs. Scarcity of IPOs.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.