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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. I’m typing this from the lawn of Alan Patricof’s “Greycroft” home in East Hampton – my first time in the Hamptons. We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home.

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Transforming Film To Digital – A Big Business Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. The DLP Cinema projector was used to display major movies in New York and Los Angeles. A huge number of films which were made before 1999 were analog in nature. It was the original analog to digital film converter.

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

approx 1999-07. John Frankel started as an individual angel investor in New York in 1999. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2007: Mixed Signs of Growth” Unknown. Wiltbank & Boeker: “Returns to Angel Investors in Groups” 3,097. 1961- 1996. Mason & Harrison: “Is it worth it?

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Read Gotham: The History of New York City to 1898.) Had one plotted the trend over time, soon cities like New York were going to be buried under horse manure.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Luckily Eric Ries was spending a few days in New York, so we sat down in the middle of Times Square and hashed this out.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

For reason number two people pay a higher price & rent in New York than they do in San Antonio, Texas. The price of property has an inherent value tied to two factors: 1) the rental rate you could charge for your property and 2) annual salaries in a given geography. The numbers just didn’t make sense to me.

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

Paul Zane Pilzer is the New York Times best-selling author of 11 books, a former professor at NYU, and has served as an economist in two White House administrations. suppliers of personalized employee health benefits, Extend Health (1999) and Zane Benefits (2006). Rick Lindquist is president of Zane Benefits, Inc.,