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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. It is the new cocktail party conversation. We list it on our bio’s as bragging rights.

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

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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First Name. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million.