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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Brian Balfour, Founder & CEO of Reforge. Product Guild.

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Four Major Startup Stages That You Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. Further Customer Acquisition. You need to improve your customer acquisition process. There is a complete process to go for an IPO. Acquisition. cases you will fail.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2006.

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Foodtech Trends That Are Here to Stay

View from Seed

Co-founders Bowie Cheung and Chetan Narain spent years helping restaurants leverage technology and data to improve their operations as part of the leadership team at Uber Eats. alternative seafood), action from large incumbents (pivots or acquisitions), and other types of technology-driven innovations.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth

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After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. A string quartet played a medley of pop radio hits as several hundreds startup founders, Goldman Sachs bankers, and venture capital investors, chatted over drinks inside a gleaming neon temple of Angel Orensanz in lower Manhattan. By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.