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Reclaiming The American Dream

YoungUpstarts

They see hedge-funders and investment bankers as having hijacked the American Dream from the middle class. workplace has become an investor-driven market, a place where workers are treated as disposable cogs who are costs to be minimized rather than capabilities to be maximized on-the-job. They feel lost.

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Valuing Startup Employee Options

David Teten

While working on my most recent startup, Navon Partners , we were fortunate to have Raul Trevino , a star former Citi investment banker and Columbia MBA, interning with us. Like me, he had the pleasure/pain of being trained as an investment banking analyst.

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The Enterprise Is Cool Again, and Box CEO Aaron Levie Is Loving It

readwrite.com

Back in 2007, that might have seemed like a crazy thing to do. Essentially this means replacing a list of on-premises software with cloud-based alternatives that do more and cost less. Levie believes that the proliferation of low-cost tablets is creating a much bigger addressable market. A Smart Bet On The Enterprise.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

And also there are a large number of people who would like to do startups in theory, but have high cost bases (family, real estate, school loans, whatever) that makes it very difficult to take the kinds of risks required. It was 2007. At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

And also there are a large number of people who would like to do startups in theory, but have high cost bases (family, real estate, school loans, whatever) that makes it very difficult to take the kinds of risks required. It was 2007. At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that.