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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. We also have a great panel coming up next Thursday night, Jan. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Producer Rick Rubin started the Def Jam record label back in 1984 in his dorm room at New York University. Each of the nine businesses listed below began in college, and in some cases, with no initial profit motive in mind. project.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. The investors of our competitor agreed to a merger and we were going to raise $15 million between the two companies. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. We were weeks from bankruptcy.