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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. As well as twenty-three years at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Savage worked as the head of New York Foreign Exchange trading for Lehman Brothers and as a Director of Proprietary Trading at Bank of America Securities.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

The other thing that we try to make everything that we do in and of (New York). We try to bring the entrepreneurs, the investors, the venture capitalists (the entire New York startup ecosystem) into everything we do. We teach them about it and then we make them do it right away. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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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. So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born.