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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Quality Manager Job Description. Quality Manager Job Description. Technology | Thursdays.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Term Sheet.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Each major city has created physical technology hubs with strong public/private partnerships. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco.

Texas 90
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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

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. Bates: Fantastic. Three, taxes.