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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

In the last few days of 2020, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and businesses what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- I was an entrepreneur and I worked long hard hours to build my company. The end of every year is the opportunity reflect on a 365-day journey. Pivots were made and goals were shattered.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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October 18, CT: HBS Panel on VC in Connecticut

David Teten

I’ll be a panelist at a HBS Club of Connecticut/HBS Angels Venture Capital in Connecticut Panel Discussion and Cocktail Reception on October 18. The event will be held at the recently-established Stamford Innovation Center , of which fellow panelist Barry Schwimmer is Founder and Managing Partner.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- After the birth of my daughter. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. Photo Credit: Lisa Cash Hanson.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

At the final roundtable, we worked with just two entrepreneurs and then spent the rest of the time on Q&A, which in itself was interesting. In the Q&A, Bill Gordon introduced himself as one of the principals of the Stamford Innovation Center, an incubator being formed in Connecticut.

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GPT-3:  An AI That Makes Cars, Not Wrenches And What It Means For The Legal Profession

YoungUpstarts

Early in my legal practice a senior partner once told me “We created a set of documents in the Garden of Eden and have just been modifying them ever since.” Rudy is an attorney, technology entrepreneur, TEDx speaker and best-selling author. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and the University of Connecticut School of Law.

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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. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford? For Meebo 1.3%