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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. Katina Stefanova : Investors lost a lot of money in the 2008 crisis and became far more concerned about the risk profile of their portfolio.

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Liquidity for Venture Backed Companies Still Comes Largely in One Flavor—Cash Acquisitions

Pascal's View

My concern, based on my direct experience negotiating half a dozen acquisitions sine 2008 (three in 2012), both inside and outside of technology, is that the negotiating environment for such ‘ acquisition-ready ’ companies is fraught with challenge from the seller’s perspective. I agree with Dennis.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Greed is Good

Altgate

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged business , government , greed , wall street. ← Viridus Launches Green Business News Aggregator Sell Snowblowers in the Winter, Not Lawn Mowers → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. ▼ 2008. (11).

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I graduated college during the 2008 financial crisis and took a career ‘gap year’ to head to South Korea and teach English. The 5 years that I spent working in the US were majorly governed by 2 things: Work and Cooking. This question led to the launch of Sitting for a Cause. Thanks to Ashley Jacobs, Sitting for a Cause ! #15-

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Denouement

View from Seed

Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed.

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