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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Once you submit your loan application, it will be reviewed immediately, and you will receive a credit decision promptly. How it Works.

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Episode 42: Office Products and Niche Focusing with Adam Smith and Jonathan Domsky

Mike Michalowicz

Adam Smith (left) is currently a Director of Marketing for ACCO Brands based in Lake Zurich, IL. He leads a team responsible for the integrated B2B marketing of brands including Swingline, Quartet, AT-A-GLANCE and Mead in the B2B market. Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable. Our Guests.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

“Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

Not only is he a visionary thinker who was ahead of his time in terms of understanding the potential of technology, but he's also an incredible leader and motivator. His company has introduced a new way of shipping packages to the market – through InPost. He perfectly mastered personal branding, for which I sincerely admire him.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Deloitte’s Shift Index , which tracks economic competitiveness, has shown a long-run decline in a firm’s ability to retain market leadership. Channel instability.