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

David Teten

Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. Stefanova was a Senior Manager at IBM, Global Business Services, specializing in post-merger integration and change management in the financial services and technology industry in Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA).

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger. That was a very interesting time for me, I was in a unique position of getting a chance to witness a merger (that I still believe was a good idea) go horribly wrong. Whether it was the execution of the merger or something else, the fact is that it went awry.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. It isn’t new stuff.

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. These were the very same products that we are used to purchasing in malls and department stores here in the United States of America. In America, the cost of doing business is very high.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Many will have completed programs at accelerators like TechStars or Y Combinator , and in fact Sood says he’s currently considering two or three companies in Microsoft’s Kinect accelerator. It was fiercely independent, and was, until its HP acquisition, one of the few PC makers still assembling computers in North America.

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