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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. Robert Dahl.

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City Made: Why NYC Is A Great Place To Be An Entrepreneur

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As a founder on Day One, you are at zero. Finance (Exchanges, Services, Banks, Accounting), Media (Publishing, Broadcasting, Digital, Gaming), Fashion & Retail, Advertising, Insurance, Global Governance, Law, Real Estate, Professional Sports, and Telecom all have industry leading firms headquartered in New York City.

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City Made: Why NYC Is A Great Place To Be An Entrepreneur

View from Seed

As a founder on Day One, you are at zero. Finance (Exchanges, Services, Banks, Accounting), Media (Publishing, Broadcasting, Digital, Gaming), Fashion & Retail, Advertising, Insurance, Global Governance, Law, Real Estate, Professional Sports, and Telecom all have industry leading firms headquartered in New York City.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem

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Better Personal Advertising. First up today was Michael Greenberg presenting Better Personal Advertising. Sajeeva and his cofounders have good domain knowledge of the retail business, but have not yet done sufficient validation of the idea. DimDim, as you know, was recently acquired by Salesforce.com.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

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Jen Sargent, founder of entertainment news site HitFix, says she can get folks to work for her at much lower rates than the "inflated" fees being offered in Silicon Valley and New York. Now hes the co-founder of TextPlus, which makes a popular app for making free texts and phone calls on smartphones. Advertisement.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,