Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Equity Crowdfunding. Equity crowdfunding takes the crowdfunding process to the next level. These sites function a lot like the sites listed above, but investors get equity in your startup. See Also Are You Ready for Equity Based Crowdfunding? This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). If you help manage a crowdfunding platform, consider publicizing the names of people who show interest in a campaign. Equity-based – Equity returns (e.g., donating to your campaign).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). It’s okay to prepare yourself first.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). It’s okay to prepare yourself first.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Editor’s note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD , is a professor at Willamette University, where he and Wade Brooks run an angel investing fund managed by second-year MBA students. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. He’s c0-authored two books and many academic articles.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. The law would have the effect of allowing companies to stay private longer, deferring the significant expense, management distraction and public disclosure of financial and operating data involved in the IPO process.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The implications of this for asset managers is that they need to find yield (aka, investment returns) elsewhere. Thus, they shift more of their allocations to what they perceive as higher yielding assets such as equity securities. Higher demand for equities therefore drives higher prices of equities.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

My recent post on “ Asset Management is a Bizarre Industry Ripe for Disruption ” got one of the most interesting reactions I’ve received. Terri Chernick : I totally agree with you that the investment management industry is ripe for improvement in so many places, from back office to front office, to payment schemes, etc.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Despite this, it’s hard to think of good examples of disruption to asset management in the classic, Clay Christensen sense.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Traditional financial products and services being fundamentally disrupted by these new digital technologies include consumer and commercial banking, fund transfers and payments, investment and wealth management, insurance, and investment banking. Mr. Matt Stewart , Senior Marketing Manager, LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE ).

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

That would be like being an intern at Google in the summer of 1998 and saying you’re responsible for 139,000 new jobs since you started. It’s not simply around understanding economic equity, which I think he has some intellectual grasp of. I think he really wants to be successful at something and generally wants to help people.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 1990-1998 13.3% 22% 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3% IPO market. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day Id do some angelinvesting. Suppose its 1998. Plus you get equity. Later stageinvestors wont invest in a company if the founders dont haveenough equity left to motivate them. The rest exist to satisfy demandamong fund managers for venture capital as an asset class.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. 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. This is number one. Three, taxes.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 24, 2013

He also co-founded Taxi Magic and formerly held a product manager position at Google. When Taxi Magic attempted to demonstrate that they tried to recruit an American to fill the role, they were rejected because I owned too much equity in the company. For example, startups work in a great deal of equity-based compensation.

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