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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (4/11) – Resiliency

Both Sides of the Table

This was soon after the bursting of the dot com bubble – in early 2001. At BuildOnline we had brought one new investor to the deal – a Swiss/New York investor called ETF Group. I jumped on a plane and immediately flew to New York for just 1 day to meet with the Chief Investment Officer of ETF.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon. 44% 2001-2019 13.7% double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

This was a modern city in a hurry to make a first impression – think of what Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York in the 1920’s – now it’s Beijing announcing that China has arrived. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. innovation in the U.S.

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An Interview with Steve Ligouri, Serial Innovator

Startup Lessons Learned

I was president first of Citibank New York, then Citibank Federal Savings Bank, which is all the U.S. In 2001, I moved from Citibank to become the CMO of Morgan Stanley’s brokerage business, where I was tasked with modernizing and reviving the brokerage business there.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

This was a modern city in a hurry to make a first impression – think of what Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York in the 1920’s – now it’s Beijing announcing that China has arrived. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. innovation in the U.S.

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How Israel and the Arab World Connect Through Technology

David Teten

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”).

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