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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

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. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. That actually wasn’t the biggest.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Mass media, top 40, stadium ethic and the horrible idea of the Grand Prix is out dated. It is being reborn now that media is interactive and not passive. Australia has the highest usage and penetration of social media at an average of 7 hours a month. So the alternative of a global currency will emerge.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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The Best Movies About Real Business, Not Hollywood’s Version of Business

David Teten

He admitted no one would want to watch a seven-hour fight with his cofounders.”. In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live. Media and entertainment is a $1.9 trillion global industry, but I find most of the content is, well, misleading. What other movies do you recommend?