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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. billion) in 2005. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization.

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4 Reasons You Might Not Want to Be VC Funded

Up and Running

Venture capitalists essentially buy equity in your brand, which means they now have a say in how you operate. In 2005, Claus Moseholm co-founded GoViral, a Danish company which specializes in harnessing the internet to promote advertisers’ videos and make them go viral. Moseholm and his team never considered taking investment capital.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. While iPhone is really still the only true game in town for mobile applications investors can see in the near future a world in which multiple mobile applications platforms will likely exist – perhaps with Blackberry, Palm Pre and Google’s Android operating system gather more momentum.

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Is the bar lower for a tech IPO?

BeyondVC

During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 During these periods, we have consistently incurred operating losses, including $0.8 million for 2005, $3.0 million, $0.9 million and $1.8 million, respectively, and used $0.7 million for 2004, $1.9

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Israel’s central bank, Morgan Stanley and other financial institutions have forecasted 3.5% billion, and in 2005 it bought another generics competitor, Ivax, based in Miami, for about $7.4 US drug powerhouse Pfizer and Iceland-based Actavis were among the bidders in the final round, but Teva beat their offers.

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