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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Bantuveris is a recognized national expert in boosting parent involvement in school and using social media for social good.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. through the Yahoo!

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. 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.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. 2006) [iii]. By analogy, look at a middle market private equity firms such as the Riverside Company.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Earlier, Sood was working for Hewlett-Packard, which had acquired his company VoodooPC, a boutique maker of high-end gaming computers, in 2006. 10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy.

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Five Questions With Jeff Berman (Public Defender Turned Kardashian App Builder)

Hunter Walker

Transitions to social media with MySpace at their peak, and then, um, the less peak part. HW: Having been at MySpace 2006-2009 do you have empathy today for what Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are trying to solve (safety and abuse, manipulation)? This is especially the case in the era of ubiquitous photo taking and social media.