Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can mean the beginning of an amazing journey leading to a story for the ages… We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible. Sometimes you can be the coach, helping them even if it means losing them. An email to preserve and show.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

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. the 1990s.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I met Jerry in 1995. NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). NetGenesis got some of eShares equity, eShare got the net.Thread product, and I joined the eShare board.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2011

We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible. I keep that email in my leather note portfolio, carrying it with me wherever I go, pulling it out often to read portions to audiences during my workshops, or just for fun to fellow private equity investor friends. Good to hear from you.

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Private Equity Seattle IPO Equity 66

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. The management team wasn’t strong enough. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. They were envious.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. One of those diets was vegan.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

All of a sudden, you need to focus on a different set of challenges and concerns like establishing standard procedures and managing a large number of employees. They need to be passionate about leadership, management, and organizational processes as the company scales. Ask yourself, “What am I focused on? What am I world-class at?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. The management team wasn’t strong enough. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. They were envious.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The last time I’d done that was when I started at MovieFone in 1995 (the first day of starting one’s own company doesn’t count!). That’s all good and well, but Tuesday morning, I was also a new employee walking into his office on the first day of a new job.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Wealthfront , which began as an automated investment management service and has since expanded into banking (it currently offers one of the highest interest rates on FDIC-insured cash accounts), now manages almost $15 billion in assets.

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