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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. AOL began integrating 5min Media’s video content on its sites through a commercial agreement executed prior to the acquisition. in August 2010.

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Founders – Use Your Down Round To Clean Up Your Cap Table

Feld Thoughts

I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. I watched, participated, and suffered through every type of creative financing as companies were struggling to raise capital in this time frame. I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005.

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What We All Can Learn from Wayne Huizenga

Growthink Blog

And just like with Waste Management’s early public offering, he cashed out of Blockbuster early - in 1994 to Viacom for a whopping $8.4 A key to the success of AutoNation was Wayne learning to temper his “grow by super-fast acquisition” spirit that so drove the success of Waste management and Blockbuster. And to delegate.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

In the business-efficiency category, Israel scored very high in availability of skilled labor, finance skills, entrepreneurship of managers and venture capital. Israel also came in first for the innovative capacity of firms to generate new products, processes and services.