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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. One of those partnerships is with Startup America , who was also featured at the lunch. Startup America is an example. In 2007, launched “America’s Giving” challenge with Facebook and Parade magazine.

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The Real Story Of America Is About Small

VC Adventure

Why is America so divided? America is home to a lot of big companies that dominate the headlines, mindshare and financial markets of our country. The result was 117,000 fewer companies in 2014 than there were in 2007. When we lose small businesses, we take a loss on three incredibly important pieces of America.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. You can imagine the complexities.

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Billionaire AND Mechanic

deal architect

Julian Guthrie’s new book catalogs the improbable path that brought together the billionaire, Larry Ellison and the radiator mechanic, Norbert Barjurin and their runs at the 2003, 2007 and 2010 America Cup. With the amazing come from behind victory of. Industry Commentary'

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. ” 3.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis.