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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell!&#. And so Buzzkill Suster continues.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever. I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. Cost: $15/Members of HBS Angels of NY and/or HBS Club of NY; $40/Non-members & Guests.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking.

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The end or the beginning? Thoughts on the current startup environment

This is going to be BIG.

Just because an angel investor that made tens of millions of dollars gives $50k to a startup, and got 9 of her friends to do the same thing, doesn't mean that company deserves to get a $5 million check. Public market holdings aren't dominated by internet companies with questionable business models the way they were in the late 90's.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

Sure, there are many other events, including eTail and Internet Retailer. It is a non-profit, unlike eTail or Internet Retailer (today I hear that Shoptalk is the biggest eCommerce conference), and it is where the highest level people in digital retail go as a result. But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. “I’ve been an angel investor in private companies since the late 1990s, and I invested in eight start-ups.