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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is the trade association representing women and diverse private equity and venture firms. Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment.

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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. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Millennium Management and Balyasny Asset Management were his employers at some point. Ten years have passed since this crisis occurred.

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Book: Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Feld Thoughts

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). In 2002, I decided not to own any public company stocks except for companies that I directly invested in as private companies.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. We discussed: 1.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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11 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Technologies That Will Have the Biggest Impact On Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

This concept was explored in cinematic form in the film ‘Minority Report’ (2002) in which people are served advertisements in public places based on their personal profiles on an individual basis. 11- Big data for trends and managing risks for risk-takers. Photo Credit: Rio Rocket. Thanks to Mike Thorne, JUSTJUNK® ! #11-

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns. So at a fund level (e.g.

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