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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Business They are Starting Next Year

Hearpreneur

10- Affiliate business. I’ll always place my bet on affiliate marketing. If you don’t want to lose out on the value of online real estate, you must explore affiliate marketing. For any business, affiliate marketing offers excellent opportunities to scale without large advertising budgets. Photo Credit: Emma Williams.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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How universities can keep alumni excited and connected

David Teten

Universities typically have many affiliated Special Interest Groups (SIGs), but almost no cooperation between them. I thought this might be of interest to others: Encourage tighter cooperation among their alumni special interest groups (SIGs). Provide more career support for alumni.

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Startup idea: marketplace for business research and students seeking internships / experience

David Teten

This is effectively a sequel to my research study on “ Best Practices in Deal Origination by Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds ”. If you’re working on a startup similar to this model, and/or you’re affiliated with a university which wants to execute this idea on its campus, please contact me. Image credit: laverrue.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. They also produced GoToMeeting and CallWave. My messages a) it can be done b) these have produced tremendous financial results and c) these were all innovators in monetization.

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Launch of Harvard Business School Angels of New York

David Teten

Our members invest in companies regardless of their affiliation (or not) with Harvard. Monday, 04/4/11 at 6:00pm: Innovation in Private Company Liquidity: Online M&A, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO. Chip Austin, i-Hatch Ventures, HBS 90. RSVP: [link].

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Austin, Meet Dallas

Austin Startup

But, the wealth symbols among the ATX tech crowd is the currency of “hottest” deal affiliation, as gauged by: who was on the founding team of which post- Trilogy or - Tivoli hit? Whereas in Austin, the tech multi-millionaire and the struggling indie musician could be standing in line together at Torchy’s , if you didn’t know better.

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