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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

approx 2004-09. John Frankel started as an individual angel investor in New York in 1999. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. DeGennaro & Dwyer: “Expected Returns to Angel Investors” 603.

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From Blue Collar To Millionaire… You Can Too

YoungUpstarts

I finally came to America to live when I was 23 years old, landing in New York, New York almost exactly 2 weeks before the fireworks were set to erupt in the sky, announcing the celebration of the Day of the Independence of the Country I loved! Now, I was living in Newark, NJ and working in New York City, NY.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Kupietzky has spoken extensively on the value of domain names and has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has been quoted by numerous print sources including Investors Business Daily , The New York Times and The Los Angeles Business Journal. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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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. the 1990s.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. I saw the product recently in New York and loved it. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. Enter Facebook.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Loading… New York. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Data Policy - NEW. Subscriber Agreement & Terms of Use - NEW. Mozilla Firefox. » More.