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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

NYU just widened the door for more people to benefit from and contribute to their network, at nominal cost. Educate more alumni angel investors. At Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY , we’ve seen enormous appetite for angel education among high net worths and family offices.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. The 20-year venture capitalist is an "angel" investor in Mr. Dreymanns new start-up, Mowingo Inc., Connecticut. Low Cost Franchises. Connecticut.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

At 1/12th the cost, 1M/1M provides far more value.". And Bill Gordon, who is working on pulling together the Stamford Innovation Center in Connecticut with Patty Meagher and Ed Petner, emailed me, saying: "We have spent a week going through your curriculum. What a great product - truly an excellent value for entrepreneurs.

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

David Teten

Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Worst yet wasted 2-3 years in the process.