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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still. What the big studies have shown.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

Google Ventures was one of our co-investors, and in addition to all the other typical support GV provides their portfolio, this startup gained some unique insights for their organic and paid search strategy which were impactful and couldn’t have been gleaned elsewhere. .