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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis zJoining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Evangelos Simoudis , venture investor and senior advisor to global corporations. Srivastava , chief data scientist at Verizon. Ashok Srivastava. Steve : And they need to agree. Evangelos : Yes.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

While certainly active in our home region of New York and New Jersey, we do invest without regard to geography. Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. iv] Economist, Global Heroes: A Report on Entrepreneurship, March 14, 2009., May 3, 2009.

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HBS Alumni Angels NY new chairman: Jason Klein

David Teten

HBSAANY has evolved into an educational organization, holding investor education events in NY , Florida , New Jersey , Connecticut , and San Francisco , as well as many webinars. We saw over time that our investor group, just like Angel List and most other angel groups, was good at syndication and not so good at leading rounds.

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