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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. What do you tell somebody in that situation? Making bank. King makers.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. What do you tell somebody in that situation? Making bank. King makers.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (4/11) – Resiliency

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We had been working on a merger between BuildOnline and a competitor called iScraper. At BuildOnline we had brought one new investor to the deal – a Swiss/New York investor called ETF Group. I jumped on a plane and immediately flew to New York for just 1 day to meet with the Chief Investment Officer of ETF.

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

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The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger. 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

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And one of the cooler new products that will emerge in 2011 is called LocalResponse and is being created by Nihal Mehta , who has pivoted from his previous company Buzzd, but I’m sworn to secrecy on what he’s up to until he releases it publicly. I saw the product recently in New York and loved it.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. The investors of our competitor agreed to a merger and we were going to raise $15 million between the two companies. I then caught the red eye the same night to Paris to meet our investors there.