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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!,

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

I was living in Boulder at this point, but traveling continuously to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle where I was making most of my investments. Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. .”

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth).

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

Up and Running

And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!” My next venture didn’t fare much better.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

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Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City

Feld Thoughts

Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). TechStars Impact on New York. Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The biggest strategic mistake Silicon Valley and TechCrunch, Forbes, New York Times attempting to portray tech innovation as a white guy thing was failing to recognize technology only goes as far as the adopting ecosystem. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.