David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

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.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I liked Yishan too (he has an incredible balance of technical acumen, managerial talent and emotional intelligence), felt that he would have the time to help me, and persuaded him to take on a 3-month part-time assignment to advise me on building our engineering team, in exchange for equity. Culture - a fun, collegial work atmosphere.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.”. (ii) Patent Office (USPTO), could create 2.5mm new jobs over the next three years by contributing to startup formation. Source: New York Times Opinion article, Inventing Our Way Out of Joblessness by Hank Nothaft and Paul Michel, August 5, 2010 ).

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”). Apply here.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies.

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. There are many VCs who have been made partner since 2000 and haven’t previously had an exit of their own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

At the same time we have seen the start-up ecosystems in New York, London and Berlin emerge as meaningful competitors to Silicon Valley. In an anomalous, parallel development, the 1999-2000 bubble spawned local funds who were able to support these companies to a point, and to introduce them to their Californian counterparts.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners. trillion in 2020.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

Software Review 79

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. There are many VCs who have been made partner since 2000 and haven’t previously had an exit of their own.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. One are investors in truly new asset classes, e.g., frontier markets like the Pakistani stock market, which really do provide new opportunities for investors to put capital to work. I can only think of a few exceptions to this zero-sum principle.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. #2 – To Reinvent Myself After a Tragedy. Image Credit: Bess Heitner. I wish I had done this years ago.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. There’s no formula however I do know … the more you build before you need to hire / partner, the more equity you can keep. Other sources of capital. That’s your call.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. If they can’t figure it out in Minneapolis, I’m not quite sure how they’re ever going to figure it out in New York. She wants to figure out how to finance the billions of dollars in much-needed NYCHA repairs. No, I mean, she actually wants to do the job.

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